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Nahum 3:15

King James Version (KJV)

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Nahum 3:15

Verse 15 of 19

Scripture focus

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 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Nahum 3:15

Theological / Devotional

There. In spite of every care taken to strengthen these needful places in the fortifications, “fire” will “devour” the city. Archeology has clearly shown that this prophecy was literally fulfilled.

Cankerworm. Heb. yeleq, the creeping, unwinged stage of the locust (see Ps. 105:34; Jer. 51:14, 27; Joel 1:4 ; 2:25). Evidently the prophet used this figure here and in the following verse to show that the destruction of Nineveh would be as sudden and complete as that wrought on vegetation by these insects.

Make thyself many. Though the Assyrians should assemble armies as numerous as the hordes of cankerworms, or locusts, it would avail them nothing.

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