Nahum 3:16 BSB — MannaFest

Nahum 3:16

You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, It is rare to find even those that have shared with us in our joys willing to share with us in our griefs too. The canker-worms will continue upon the field while there is any thing to be had, but they are gone when all is gone.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִרְבֵּית֙	hir.Beit	you have increased	H7235 →
רֹֽכְלַ֔יִךְ	ro.khe.La.yikh	traders your	H7402 →
מִכּוֹכְבֵ֖י	mi.kokh.Vei	more than [the] stars of	H3556 →
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →
יֶ֥לֶק	Ye.lek	a locust	H3218 →
פָּשַׁ֖ט	pa.Shat	it strips off	H6584 →
וַיָּעֹֽף׃	vai.ya.'Of	and it flew away	H5774 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3218yeleka locust9×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
leads to
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 24:60
  And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
- Jeremiah 33:22
  As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister…
- Genesis 26:4
  I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Psalms 2:8–9
  Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Through
Genesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
leads to
- Hebrews 11:12
  And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 22:17
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Romans 4:18
  Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Nahum

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Nahum