Nahum 3:8 meaning and explanation
Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
Nahum 3:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD is speaking through Nahum to the city of Nineveh, Assyria's capital, announcing its coming fall. Here he taunts the city by comparing it to Thebes, the great Egyptian capital on the Nile, whose moats and river channels served as ramparts and walls.
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