Nahum 2:4 - Exposition

The chariots shall rage in the streets. The chariots rave, dash madly ( Jeremiah 46:9 ) about the open ways in the suburbs, or in the plains of the country. The description still appertains to the besiegers, who are so numerous that to the Ninevites, looking from their walls, their chariots seem to dash against one another. They shall seem— their appearance is— like torches. Thus is described the gleaming of the chariots and the armour (see on Nahum 2:3 ; 1 Macc. 6:39, "Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire").