Nahum 3:4

2 The noise of¹ a whip
And the noise of rattling wheels,
Of galloping horses,
Of clattering chariots!

3 Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear.
There is a multitude of slain,
A great number of bodies,
Countless corpses—
They stumble over the corpses—

4 Because of the multitude of¹ harlotries of the seductive harlot,
^aThe mistress of sorceries,
Who sells nations through her harlotries,
And families through her sorceries.

5 “Behold, I am ^aagainst you,” says the Lord of hosts;
^b“I will lift your skirts over your face,
I will show the nations your nakedness,
And the kingdoms your shame.

6 I will cast abominable filth upon you,
Make you ^avile,
And make you ^ba spectacle.

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God directs this prophecy against Nineveh, not Israel, but it gives us insight into the way God perceives matters and their uses. He considers as harlotry their military power and its use against others. In addition, God repeats His earlier statement that dealing in the occult, sorcery, is harlotry.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Beast and Babylon (Part Nine): Babylon the Great

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