The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Nahum 3:2
The noise of a whip…
Of a horseman or chariot driver
whipping his horses to make speed to Nineveh, and enter into it, so
near as to be heard by the inhabitants of it; and is thus represented
in order to strike terror into them:
and the noise of the rattling of the wheels;
that is, of the chariots
upon the stones, whose drivers drove Jehu like, making the utmost haste
they could to get in first, and seize the prey:
and of the pransing horses;
or bounding steeds, upon a full gallop;
either with horsemen on them riding full speed to partake of the booty;
or in chariots, in which they caper and prance, and shake the ground as
they go; hence it follows:
and of the jumping chariots;
which, through the swiftness of the
motion, seem to leap and dance as they run along.
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