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Nahum 3:9

King James Version (KJV)

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Nahum 3:9

Verse 9 of 19

Scripture focus

Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Nahum 3:9 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Nahum 3:9

Theological / Devotional

Ethiopia. Or, Cush, mainly the classical Nubia, or the modern Sudan (see on Gen. 10:6). The king who ruled over Egypt at the time of the destruction of Thebes was Tanutamon, the successor and nephew of Taharka, the Biblical Tirhakah. In the OT Tirhakah is called the “king of Ethiopia” (see on 2 Kings 19:9), because he belonged to the Twenty-fifth, or “Ethiopian,” Dynasty of Egypt (see Vol. II, pp. 52, 53).

Egypt Egypt proper, whose people, joined with the Nubians, constituted a power that was “infinite,” or “without number,” so to speak (2 Chron. 12:3).

Put. Thought by many Egyptologists to refer to Punt, but by Assyriologists to be a part of Libya (see on Eze. 27:10).

Lubim. The Libyans (see on 2 Chron. 12:3).

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