Nahum 3:8

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Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

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The Assyrian EmpireThe extent of the Assyrian Empire that conquered the northern kingdom of Israel.

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Thebes (No-amon) was a major Egyptian city on the Nile, supported by Egypt, Cush (Nubia), Put/Libya, and other allies. Nahum invokes its fall to warn Nineveh, Assyria’s capital, that even a strongly defended imperial city cannot escape God’s judgment.

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Nahum 3:8 mentions Assyria, Cush, Egypt, Libya, Nile, Nineveh, Put and Thebes.

Photo of Assyria — Assyria · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato