Nahum 2:3-4

NAHUM—NOTE ON Nahum 2:3 shield... red. Perhaps their shields were permanently stained with the blood of defeated foes from previous battles. His.... he is a reference to the scatterer mentioned in v. Nahum 2:1. The attacking army was a coalition of Medes and Babylonians, and possibly Scythians. The streets and squares are those of the suburbs surrounding Nineveh, the first areas to be overrun by the attacking army.