Nahum 2:3
The shield of his mighty men is made ered, the valiant men are 3in scarlet: the chariots shall be with 4flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
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Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Isaiah 63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
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Or, dyed scarlet.
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Or, fiery torches.
one part for the whole of the armour and furniture, or harness.
Medes or Chaldeans’, mighty men; soldiers, more particularly the brave and stout ones, who were the choice men of the army.
either coloured red by the dyer, or else dyed red with the blood of the slain.
this explains the former; they used this colour much, either to terrify the enemy, or to conceal their own wounds widen the blood on other colour would have disclosed them.
much used in the wars of those countries, and the great men usually fought in them in those days.
either because they did force fire out of the stones by their swift motion over them, or rather because there were torches always carried in them, to light them that rode in them by night, and to be in readiness to fire the houses of cities or tents in the camp they did break into.
when he shall muster his armies, and bring together his magazines, and prepare his engines.
by axes cutting them down for several uses in the war, for torches, for lances, for building forts, and many other uses. This is parallel with Isa 14:8. Whole forests were sometimes destroyed by great armies, which cut them down for their service.