Nahum 3:8

Nineveh, are you better than Thebes, that was built on the Nile River, that had water around her, 1 whose defense was the ocean, whose wall was the sea itself? 1

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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

7It will come about that everyone who looks at you will flee from you and say, 1 'Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?' 1 Where can I find anyone to comfort you?” 1

9Cush and Egypt were her strength, and there was no end to it; 1 Put and Libya were allies to her. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 19:5The waters of the sea will dry up, and the river will dry up and become empty. 1

Ezekiel 30:14Then I will make Pathros desolate and set fire in Zoan, and I will execute acts of judgment on Thebes.

Amos 6:2Your leaders say, “Go to Kalneh and look; 1 from there go to Hamath, the great city; 1 then go down to Gath of the Philistines. 1 Are they better than your two kingdoms? 1 Is their border larger than your border?” 1

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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