Comparison to the Fall of Thebes
Nahum 3:8-10
8
Are you any better than No-Amon, located among the streams of the Nile, with water all around her, the flood her wall of defense?
9
Ethiopia and Egypt gave her boundless strength, Put and Luvim were there to help you.
10
Still she went captive into exile, her infants torn to pieces at every streetcorner. Lots were drawn for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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