Nahum 3:8
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?
King James Version
In Context
9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Cross References
Isaiah 19:5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Ezekiel 30:14And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Amos 6:2Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
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 →