Reading for October 31st

Read Nahum 2.1-3.7 Nineveh is attacked.
The detailed descriptions of a military assault on Nineveh and of battles
in its streets anticipate the imminent end of the city.
In verse 2.1 the shatterer (or "scatterer"; see note d) is the enemy army attacking Nineveh.
In verse 2 this verse appears to be out of place, as the parentheses added by the translators indicate.
It describes the restoration of Judah, interrupting the narrative of the attack on Nineveh.
It probably once followed 1.15 or is a later scribal addition.
In verses 3-5 the description of the army attacking Nineveh continues from v. 1.
In verse 5 the Hebrew term translated by mantelet is a noun from the root, "weave,"
and may be a woven shield to protect soldiers in battle.
In verse 6 these river gates controlled a network of canals that brought water
into Nineveh from the Tigris and Khoser rivers nearby.
They appear to have been opened by the enemy to flood the city (v. 8).
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