Nahum 3:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. ”

• Nahum 3:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  There - where thou didst fence thyself, and madest such manifold and toilsome preparation, Shall the fire devour thee. - All is toil within. The fire of God’s wrath falls and consumes at once...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the (e) cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. (c) Signifying th...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Even so Nineveh shall be made drunk with the cup of God's wrath, and faint and staggering shall seek refuge from the enemy. Her outer fortresses shall fall like first-ripe figs ( Isaiah 28:4 *) into...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cankerworm . the young locust. Hebrew. yelek. See note on Joel 1:4 . make thyself many . [though thou be] numerous. Figure of speech Irony (App-6). locusts . the young locust. Hebrew. arbe...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  But he adds, There shall the fire consume thee There is much importance in the adverb of place, there, which he uses: there also, he says , shall the fire eat thee up: for he expresses m...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Make thyself many as t...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  There shall the fire devour thee, &c.— According to the prophet, the city was to be destroyed by fire and water; and we see in the passage quoted from Diodorus, ch. Nahum 2:6 that by fire and...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. There - in the...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Doom of Nineveh 1-7. Another threat against Nineveh, showing that disaster has come upon her on account of her sins. The keynote of the whole chapter is the fierce cry, Woe to the bloody city...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The diversion of metaphor here is somewhat repugnant to modern taste. The sword, like the locust, shall devour Nineveh. Yet Nineveh is immediately afterwards compared in its numbers, destructive infl...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE SIEGE AND FALL OF NINEVEH Nahum 2:1-13 ; Nahum 3:1-19 THE scene now changes from the presence and awful arsenal of the Almighty to the historical consummation of His vengeance. Nahum fores...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Deserved Doom Nahum 3:1-19 This terrible chapter pictures the doom of Nineveh. She had used infamous methods in bringing surrounding nations under her power, and now her shame was to be discove...

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• Nahum 3:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The last part of the prophecy is devoted wholly to the vindication of Jehovah's action against Nineveh, and is a fitting defense of the introductory declarations concerning His character. In the fir...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I include the whole of this passage in one view for the sake of shortness, having already extended the Commentary very much beyond the original design. The whole of Nahum's prophecy, if taken literal...

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• Nahum 3:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  There shall the fire devour thee ,.... In the strong holds, made ever so firm and secure; either the fire of divine wrath; or the fire of the enemy they should put into them; or the enemy himself, a...

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• Nahum 3:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Ver. 15. There shal...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Draw thee waters for the siege Fill all thy cisterns, and draw the waters into the ditches. Go into the clay , &c. Set thy brickmakers on work to prepare store of materials for thy fortificati...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Judgment of Nineveh. B. C. 710.       8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situa...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  There; in the very fortresses. The fire; either literally, or figuratively, the wrath of the enemy hot as fire, or the pestilence, or all together. The sword of the Chaldeans, their wars, (afte...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 3:14 . Draw] for a long-continued siege, improve fortifications, put the kiln in order for burning bricks. Nahum 3:15 . Make] Multiply thyself, like the largest and...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Nahum 3:1 . Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; Assyria became a great empire through violence, falsehood, and robbery. The soldiery had no respect...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Nahum 3:1 . Woe to the bloody city. Nineveh was drunk with blood. She was burdened with the wealth of plundered nations; her feasts and idolatries filled up the measure of her iniquity. Oh how sub...

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• Nahum 3:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Nahum 3:1-34 Part III . THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT — SINS OF THE CITY , WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT . Nahum 3:1-34 § 1. The prophet specifies t...

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• Nahum 3:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Miserable Ruin of Nineveh. Jehovah now shows that the cause of Nineveh's destruction is its wickedness, and that for this reason the city is bound to submit to the sentence which has been pron...

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• Nahum 3:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 10:13-15 ; Joel 1:4 ; Joel 2:25 ; Nahum 2:13 ; Nahum 3:13 ; Zephaniah 2:13

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• Nahum 3:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  There — In the very fortresses. Eat thee — As easily as the canker — worm eats the green herb. Many — They are innumerable; be thou so if thou canst; all will be to no purpose.

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