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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Nahum 3:15

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 that God's judgments would suddenly destroy the Assyrians, as these vermin do with rain or change of weather.

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See also Nahum 3:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Nahum 3:15. _MAKE THYSELF MANY AS THE CANKERWORM_] On the _locusts_, and their operations in their various _states_, see the notes on Joel 2:2. The multitudes, successive swarms, and devastatio...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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. Mankind...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • 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 th...

  • 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. _arbeh_. See n...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _NINEVEH'S STRONG HOLDS ARE WEAK -- NAHUM 3:12-15:_ The invading army would take Nineveh with the greatest of ease. God said, "Your fortresses are fig trees with ripe figs. Merely shake the trees, and...

  • 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 water it...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • 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 very...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:15 cankerworm. (g-19) See Joel 1:4 ....

  • 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! IT...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • 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 influ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׁ֚ם תֹּאכְלֵ֣ךְ אֵ֔שׁ תַּכְרִיתֵ֣ךְ חֶ֔רֶב תֹּאכְלֵ֖ךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • 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 discovered an...

  • 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 firs...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Locust. Yet all will be in vain. Thy numbers will be cut off as easily as locusts._...

  • 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 literall...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 more than...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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, as K...

  • 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 shall...

  • 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 fortifications....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    There shall the fire devour thee, in the very midst of these preparations; THE SWORD SHALL CUT THEE OFF, IT SHALL EAT THEE UP LIKE THE CANKER-WORM, as locusts destroy; MAKE THYSELF MANY AS THE CANKER-...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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, (after all t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 3:15 fire H784 devour H398 (H8799) sword H2719 off H3772 (H8686) up H398 (H8799) locust...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 sublim...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:15 No matter how well supplied and fortified Nineveh is, THERE the inhabitants will die. FIRE. Archaeologists have found evidence of a devastating fire at Nineveh. SWORD.

  • The 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 most formida...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION NAHUM 3:1 Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT—SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 10:13; Joel 1:4; Joel 2:25; Nahum 2:13; Nahum 3:13;...

  • 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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