Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Context
This verse from Nahum Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. A woe against Nineveh the bloody city full of plunder. The chaotic battle scene gives way to the observation that Nineveh is like Thebes (No-Amon) who fell despite the rivers and the Ethiopian-Egyptian alliance. Nineveh's merchants are like locusts that …
Other Translations
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Even she doth become an exile, She hath gone into captivity, Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces At the top of all out-places, And for her honoured ones they cast a lot, And all her great ones have been bound in fetters.
But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.
Cross References
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto …
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served …
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and …
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the …
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured …
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall …