Nahum 3:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ mounted horsemen with bright sword and glittering spear, and many wounded, and a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses, they stumble over the corpses –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Horsemen mounting and charging, the flashing sword, the gleaming spear, a multitude of slain and a great number of corpses, no end of corpses! [The horsemen] stumble over the corpses!

American Standard Version (1901)

³ the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;—

Common English Bible

³ Charging cavalry, flashing sword, and glittering spear; countless slain, masses of corpses, endless dead bodies—they stumble over their dead bodies!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ and of the flashing sword and the shining spear, and of a multitude executed and a grievous ruination. Neither is there an end to the dead bodies, and they will fall down upon their dead bodies.

Nahum 3:3 Cross References

Genesis 3:24

and He drove the man out. And He placed keruḇ

2 Kings 19:35

And it came to be in that night that the messenger of יהוה  went out, and smote in the camp of Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they rose up early in the morning and saw all of them dead bodies.

Isaiah 34:3

and their slain be thrown out, and their stench rise from their corpses. And mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Isaiah 37:36

And a messenger of יהוה  went out, and killed in the camp of Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose early in the morning, and saw all of them, dead bodies.

Isaiah 66:16

“For by fire and by His sword יהוה  shall judge all flesh, and the slain of יהוה  shall be many –

Ezekiel 39:4

“On the mountains of Yisra’ĕ

Leviticus 26:37

‘And they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies.

Nahum 2:4

The chariots dash about in the streets, they rush one another in the broad ways. They look like flaming torches, they run like lightning.

Habakkuk 3:11

Sun, moon shall stand still in their places. Like light Your arrows fly, Like lightning is Your glittering spear.