Nahum 3:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth,e and flieth away. ”

• Nahum 3:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven - Not numerous only but glorious in the eyes of the world, and, as thou deemest, safe and inaccessible; yet in an instant all is gone....

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• Nahum 3:16 - 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 3:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Thou . [Though] thou, &c. spoileth . stript itself, or cast off the skin.

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• Nahum 3:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  From these words we may learn what the Prophet before meant, when he said that the Assyrians were like locusts or chafers; as though he said, — “I know that you trust in your great number; for...

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• Nahum 3:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants - Like Tyre, this city was a famous resort for merchants; bu...

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• Nahum 3:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants - ( Ezekiel 27:23-24 , concerning Tyre, "Haran, and...

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• Nahum 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven ,.... A hyperbolical expression, setting forth the great number of merchants that were in Nineveh, and in the land of Assyria; who either...

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• Nahum 3:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Ver. 16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven ] And so thinkest to h...

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• Nahum 3:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars Thou hast drawn more merchants to thee than there are stars in the heavens. This is a hyperbolical expression, to signify the great number of th...

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• Nahum 3:16 - 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 3:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou hast multiplied for number; and, as the word may import, thou hast greatened them, thou reliest on their purse and interest. Thy merchants; either literally, or figuratively, thy great men,...

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• Nahum 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - 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 3:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 15:5 ; Genesis 22:17 ; Jeremiah 33:22 ; Nehemiah 9:23

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• Nahum 3:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The canker — worm spoileth — So these are like the canker — worms, which spoil wherever they come, and when no more is to be gotten, flee away.

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