Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17; Jeremiah 33:22; Nehemiah 9:23
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, saf...
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 shal...
Thou . [Though] thou, &c. spoileth . stript itself, or cast off the skin.
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, —...
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants - Like Tyr...
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants -...
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...
Cankerworm.. grasshopper ] species of locusts. 16-19 . Prosperity and pride have been 'the cankerworm that spoileth,' so that in the great crisis...
The diversion of metaphor here is somewhat repugnant to modern taste. The sword, like the locust, shall devour Nineveh. Yet Nineveh is immediately af...
Spoileth. — Better, spreads itself out: swarms out to spoil.
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 his...
Deserved Doom Nahum 3:1-19 This terrible chapter pictures the doom of Nineveh. She had used infamous methods in bringing surrounding nations un...
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...
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 desig...
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven ,.... A hyperbolical expression, setting forth the great number of merchants that were...
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Ver. 16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchant...
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 hyperbol...
The Judgment of Nineveh. B. C. 710. ...
Thou hast multiplied for number; and, as the word may import, thou hast greatened them, thou reliest on their purse and interest. Thy merchants;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 3:14 . Draw] for a long-continued siege, improve fortifications, put the kiln in order for burning bricks. Nahum 3:...
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, f...
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...
EXPOSITION Nahum 3:1-34 Part III . THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT — SINS OF THE CITY , WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT...
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 b...
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven, the number of its people engaged in commercial pursuits of every kind being very great;...
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.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth,e and flieth away.