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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?
Nahum 3:8 — KJV
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Nahum 3:8
King James Version (KJV)
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Nahum 3:8
Verse 8 of 19
Commentary
Commentary on Nahum 3:8
Theological / DevotionalPopulous No. Heb. No’ Amon, the city of the Egyptian god Amen; that is, the city of Thebes in Upper Egypt (see Jer. 46:25; Eze. 30:14-16). This celebrated city, with its tombs of the kings, its colossi and sphinxes, its great temples of Karnak and Luxor with their massive columns and colonnades, was superbly situated on the Nile, as was Nineveh on the Tigris. Nahum here serves warning to Nineveh that, in the sight of Heaven, she is no better than Thebes and can as easily meet with the same fate. Thebes had been destroyed in 663 B.C. by Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria.
The sea. Here used to refer to the Nile River. In the OT large rivers were sometimes called “seas” (see Isa. 19:5; Jer. 51:36). The closing clause simply means that the Nile with its canals constituted the “wall,” or the defenses, of Thebes.
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