Nahum 2:8 KJV — MannaFest

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

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ASV

But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.

WEB

Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

YLT

And Nineveh is as a pool of waters, From of old it is --and they are fleeing! `Stand ye, stand;' and none is turning!

DBT

Nineveh hath been like a pool of water, since the day she existed, yet they flee away. ...Stand! Stand! But none looketh back.

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Nahum — A century after Jonah, Nineveh is still Nineveh — and Nahum's burden is the city's destruction. Three short chapters of breathtaking poetry on the fall of Assyria's capital.

Author: Nahum the Elkoshite (1:1)
Date: Between 663 BC (the fall of Thebes, 3:8) and 612 BC (Nineveh's actual fall)

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16 verses on the floor

Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum 1:8
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Nahum 3:17
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Jeremiah 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

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): Nineveh is of old like a pool of water, replenished with people as a pool with water (and waters signify multitudes, Rev. xvii. 15 ), or as those waters with fish; it was long ago a populous city; in Jonah's time there were 120,000 little children in it ( Jonah iv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Stand, stand, shall they cry--that is, the few patriotic citizens shall cry to their fleeing countrymen; "but none looketh back," much less stops in flight, so panic-stricken are they.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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NAH 2:8REV 17:1 JER 51:13
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
NAH 2:8REV 17:1 REV 19:2
NAH 2:8JER 51:30 NAH 3:13
NAH 2:8REV 17:1 REV 17:1-17
NAH 2:8REV 17:1 REV 16:19
NAH 2:8JER 51:30 JER 50:36-37
NAH 2:8REV 17:1 REV 21:9
NAH 2:8REV 17:15 REV 17:1

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