“He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.”
He summons his picked troops; they stumble as they go; they hasten to the wall, and the siege tower is set up—the enemy's assault on Nineveh's defenses proceeds relentlessly despite initial stumbling. Even the defenders' fortifications, once sources of boasted security, become the sites of their last stand before inevitable collapse. The military specificity grounds the theological judgment in historical reality.
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