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The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
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God's Unstoppable Judgment
The verse uses extreme imagery—chariots raging like madmen, flashing like torches and lightning—to depict the invading army. Commentators like John Calvin explain this isn't just poetic flair; it's meant to show a supernatural, divinely-powered force. The attack is so swift and terrifying that it's clearly God's judgment in action, overwhelming a city that thought itself invincible.
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Nahum
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Army is arrayed against army; the armies, thus far, of God against the army of His enemy; all outside is order; all within, confusion. The assailin…
16th Century
Protestant
He continues with the same subject: that they will be furious in the streets; that is, they will be so turbulent, as though they were out of their …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The chariots shall rage in the streets In the streets of Nineveh when taken; where they shall be drove in a furious manne…
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