Verse Nahum 3:16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants] Like Tyre, this city was a famous resort for merchants; but the multitudes which were there previously to the siege, like the locusts, took the alarm, and fled away.
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. The...
CHAPTER 3 Nineveh's Guilt and Well-Deserved Judgment _ 1. The great wickedness of Nineveh (Nahum 3:1) _ 2. Her fate to be like the fate of No-Amon (Nahum 3:8) 3. Her well-deserved and complete jud...
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 th...
THOU. [Though] thou, &c. SPOILETH. stript itself, or cast off the skin....
_NINEVEH'S LEADERS ARE WEAK -- NAHUM 3:16-19:_ These verses describe the utter defeat of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. There is neither the possibility that the nation might be spared or restored....
NINEVEH IS NO BETTER. Nahum 3:8-19 RV. Art thou better than No-amon, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? Et...
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. THOU HAST MULTIPLIED THY MERCHANTS - (Ezekiel 27:23, concerning Tyre, "Haran, and Canneh, and...
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! IT...
CANKERWORM.. GRASSHOPPER] species of locusts. 16-19. Prosperity and pride have been 'the cankerworm that spoileth,' so that in the great crisis there is no power of resistance; it is a mortal wound....
NAHUM, *PROPHET OF COMFORT NAHUM _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 Trouble will come to you, city of blood! You are full of lies. You are full of things that your people stole! There were always p...
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 influ...
SPOILETH. — Better, _spreads itself out:_ swarms out to spoil....
הִרְבֵּית֙ רֹֽכְלַ֔יִךְ מִ כֹּוכְבֵ֖י הַ שָּׁמָ֑יִם...
THE SIEGE AND FALL OF NINEVEH Nahum 2:1; Nahum 3:1 THE scene now changes from the presence and awful arsenal of the Almighty to the historical consummation of His vengeance. Nahum foresees the siege...
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 discovered an...
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 firs...
_Away. Thus did the merchants, at the approach of the enemy._...
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 literall...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Singular was the reproach of the Jews in the time of our Lord (John 7:52); for there were prophets who had arisen out of Galilee. Jonah and Nahum were both G...
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 ye are...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, AND 3. If we were to examine closely the different characters of the nations who have been connected with the people of God, we should perhaps find in e...
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 we...
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 hav...
_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 them...
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 pronoun...
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, literally, "the licking...
SPOILETH: Or, spreadeth himself...
8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worm...
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, princ...
Nahum 3:16 multiplied H7235 (H8689) merchants H7402 (H8802) stars H3556 heaven H8064 locust H3218 plunders H6584 ...
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 fo...
CONTENTS: Nineveh reaps what it has sown destruction and violence. CHARACTERS: God, King of Assyria. CONCLUSION: The people that have with their cruelties been a terror and destruction to others, wi...
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 sublim...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:1 Again, Focus on Nineveh: More concerning the Lord’s Coming Judgment. This last major section of the book repeats most of the themes of the previous section (Nahum
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:16 YOU INCREASED YOUR MERCHANTS. When Nineveh was the proud capital of a vast empire, her merchants brought enormous wealth to the city. Now, however, these merchants, and the hu...
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 most formida...
EXPOSITION NAHUM 3:1 Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT—SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT....
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping cha...
Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17; Jeremiah 33:22; Nehemiah 9:23...
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....