Comparison to the Fall of Thebes
Nahum 3:8-10
8
Art thou better then No, which was ful of people? that lay in the riuers, and had the waters round about it? whose ditche was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
9
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and there was none ende: Put and Lubim were her helpers.
10
Yet was she caried awaye, and went into captiuitie: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streetes: and they cast lottes for her noble men, and al her myghtie men were bound in chaines.
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