Nahum 3:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Nineveh boasted of her strength, but she was no better placed than No-Amon, with the Nile around her for rampart, the whole strength of Egypt and Ethiopia her defence, and Put and the Libyans as allies, who yet passed into captivity, amid all the horrors of siege and storm.

Nahum 3:8. No-Amon: Homer's hundred-gated Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt, captured by Ashurbanipal in 663 B.C. (cf. Intro.). The original magnificence of the city is borne witness to by the splendid ruins of Karnac and Luxor. Removing a slight redundancy, read That sat (in stately pride and confidence) on the Nile-streams, her rampart the sea (i.e. the broad Nile) and the waters her wall.

Nahum 3:9. Put and Lubim: Hamite nations near Ethiopia (Genesis 10:6; Genesis 10:13), that served as Egyptian mercenaries (Jeremiah 46:9).

Nahum 3:10. Description of the usual fate of a captured city (cf. Lamentations 4).

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Nahum 3:8-10

8 Art thou better than populousc 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?

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

10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.