Nahum 3:8

Are you any better than the city of Thebes on the River Nile, surrounded by water? Water was its defense, water was its wall.

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Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

In Context

7Then everyone who sees you will shun you saying, “Nineveh is ruined! But who is going to mourn your loss?” Where should I look to find anyone to comfort you?

9The city ruled Egypt and Ethiopia. Put and Libya were its allies.

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Cross References

Isaiah 19:5The waters of the Nile will fail, and its riverbed will be sunbaked and dry.

Ezekiel 30:14I will destroy Pathros, set Zoan on fire, and punish Thebes.

Amos 6:2But go to Calneh, and see what took place there. Then go on to the great city of Hamath, and down to the Philistine city of Gath. Were they better kingdoms than yours? Did they have more territory than you?

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:2-8

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the… Read the whole commentary →

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