Nahum 3:8

¶ 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?

Art thou better {H3190} than populous {H527}{H528} No {H4996}, that was situate {H3427} among the rivers {H2975}, that had the waters {H4325} round about {H5439} it, whose rampart {H2426} was the sea {H3220}, and her wall {H2346} was from the sea {H3220}?

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?

Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

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Cross-References

  • Amos 6:2 (4 votes)

    Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

  • Ezekiel 30:14 (3 votes)

    And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

  • Ezekiel 30:16 (3 votes)

    And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses daily.

  • Jeremiah 46:25 (2 votes)

    The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him:

  • Jeremiah 46:26 (2 votes)

    And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

  • Ezekiel 31:2 (2 votes)

    Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

  • Ezekiel 31:3 (2 votes)

    Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.