Nahum 3:16 meaning and explanation
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
Nahum 3:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Nahum 3:16 continues the prophet's taunt against Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. In verse 15 the city is told to multiply like locusts, and here its merchants are compared to the stars of the sky, a picture of vast wealth and trade.
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