Naum 2:9

"Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture."

It is idle to speculate on the obscure clause regarding, "the glory of all goodly furniture." The meaning is clear enough, no matter what the particular shade of meaning might have been. Looting is the same in all ages and countries. The looting of Assyria is taking place in this verse; and no people who ever lived on earth knew any more about looting than the Assyrians; but now it was their turn to be the looted! What a fat city Assyria was! It was the grand central warehouse of looted treasures of the whole ancient world. Descriptions of the wealth of Assyria break down with superlatives. There was nothing else like it on earth; and yet all that wealth was carried away, leaving nothing but a mound of ruins forever!