Nahum 2:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Biasanya singa itu menerkam supaya cukup makan anak-anaknya, mencekik mangsa bagi betina-betinanya, dan memenuhi liangnya dengan mangsa dan persembunyiannya dengan terkaman.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Biasanya singa itu menerkam supaya cukup makan anak-anaknya, mencekik mangsa bagi betina-betinanya, dan memenuhi liangnya dengan mangsa dan persembunyiannya dengan terkaman.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tempat singa merampas mangsanya cukup bagi segala anaknya dan mencekik mangsanya karena segala betinanya; dan dipenuhinya guanya dengan rampasan dan tempat kediaman dengan mangsanya.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Where is the abiding place of lions, and the feding plot of lions whelpes [become,] whyther the young and olde lion had their resort? there dwelt the lion, & there was no man to put him in feare. ¹² The lion made his praye aboundauntly for his whelpes, and strangled for his she lions, and hath filled his dennes with pray, and his abyding places with spoyle. ¹³ Behold me against thee sayth the Lord of hoastes, & I will burne in smoke her charets, and the sworde shall deuoure thy lions, I will roote out also from the earth thy spoyling, and the voyce of thy messengers shalbe hearde no more.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and filled: Psalms 17:12, Isaiah 10:6-14, Jeremiah 51:34

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:13 - torn in pieces Psalms 10:9 - secretly Proverbs 1:13 - General Isaiah 15:7 - the abundance Isaiah 37:18 - the kings Jeremiah 5:6 - a lion Ezekiel 19:2 - A lioness Ezekiel 26:3 - I am Daniel 6:7 - he shall Nahum 2:9 - for there is none end of the store Nahum 3:1 - full Nahum 3:19 - upon

Cross-References

Exodus 28:20
In the fourth a Turcas, an Onyx, and a Iaspis: and they shalbe set in golde in their inclosers.

Exodus 39:13
In the fourth rowe, a Turcas, an Onyx, and a Iaspis: and they were closed in ouches of golde in their inclosers.

Numbers 11:7
The Manna was as coriander seede, and to see to lyke Bedellion.

Job 28:16
No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her.

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast ben in the pleasaunt garden of God, thou art deckt with all maner of precious stones, with ruby, topas, diamond, thurkis, onyx, iasper, saphir, emeralde, carbuncle, and golde: the workemanship of thy timbrels and of thy pipes [that be] in thee, was prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps,.... The metaphor is still continued; and the kings of Assyria are compared to lions that hunt for their prey, and, having found it, tear it in pieces, and carry home a sufficiency for their whelps. It is a notion that is advanced by some writers, as Herodotus p, that the lioness, the strongest and boldest creature, brings forth but once in its life, and then but one; which Gellius q confutes by the testimonies of Homer and Aristotle; and it appears from the prophet here to be a false one, as well as from Ezekiel 19:2 thus the Assyrians made war on other nations, and pillaged and plundered them, to enlarge their dominions, provide for their posterity, and enrich their children:

and strangled for his lionesses; that is, strangled other beasts, as the lion first does, when it seizes a creature, and then tears it in pieces, and brings it to the she lion in the den with its whelps. These "lionesses" design the wives and concubines of the kings of Assyria, among whom they parted the spoils of their neighbours. So the Targum,

"kings bring rapine to their wives, and a prey to their children;''

that is, riches, which they have taken from others by force and rapine: thus Cicero r observes of the kings of Persia and Syria, that they had many wives, and gave cities to them after this manner; this city for their headdress, this for the neck, and the other for the hair; the expenses of them:

and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravine; as the lion fills his dens and lurking holes with the prey he has seized and ravened; so the kings of Assyria filled their palaces, treasures, magazines, towers, cities, and towns, with the wealth and riches they took by force from other nations; as the Targum,

"and they filled their treasuries with rapine, and their palaces with spoil.''

p Thalia, sive l. 3. c. 108. q Noctes Atticae, l. 13. c. 7. r Orat. 8. in Verrem, l. 3. p. 509.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nahum 2:12. The lion did tear — This verse gives us a striking picture of the manner in which the Assyrian conquests and depredations were carried on. How many people were spoiled to enrich his whelps - his sons, princes, and nobles! How many women were stripped and slain, whose spoils went to decorate his lionesses - his queen, concubines, and mistresses. And they had even more than they could assume; their holes and dens - treasure-houses, palaces, and wardrobes - were filled with ravin, the riches which they got by the plunder of towns, families, and individuals. This is a very fine allegory, and admirably well supported.