The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Nahum 2:5
He shall recount his worthies…
Either the dasher in
pieces, (Nahum 2:1) , the kings of Babylon and Media, shall call
together their general officers, and muster the forces under then, and
put them in mind of their duty, and recount the actions of their
ancestors in former times, in order to animate and encourage them to
the siege and attack of the city of Nineveh; or the king of Assyria
shall recount and muster up his nobles, and the troops under them, to
sally out against the enemy, and meet him in the field, and give him
battle:
they shall stumble in their walk:
being many, and in haste to obey
the orders of their commander, shall stumble and fall upon one another;
or else the Ninevites in their march out against the enemy shall be
discomfited and flee before him, or be dispirited and flee back again:
they shall make haste to the wall thereof;
of Nineveh; that is, the
Medes and Chaldeans shall make haste thither, to break it down or scale
it; or the Ninevites, failing in their sally out, shall betake themselves
in all haste to their city walls, and defend themselves under the
protection of them:
and the defence shall be prepared;
or the "covering": the word F8
used has the signification of a booth or tent, to cover and protect;
here it signifies something that was prepared, either by the besiegers,
to cover them from the darts and stones of the besieged, as they made
their approaches to the walls; or which the besieged covered themselves
with from the assaults of the besiegers; rather the former.
FOOTNOTES:
F8 (Kkwoh) "operimentum", Pagninus, Montanus; "integumentum",
Calvin; "testudo", Vatablus, Grotius, Cocceius, Burkius.
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