Nahum 3:8

Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

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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 all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

9Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.

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Cross References

Isaiah 19:5The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

Ezekiel 30:14I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.

Amos 6:2Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

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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