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Nahum 3:8-10
Contemporary English Version
Nahum 3:8-10
Contemporary English Version
Nineveh's Fate Is Sealed
8 Nineveh, do you feel safer
than the city of Thebes?[a]
The Nile River
was its wall of defense.[b]
9 Thebes trusted the mighty power
of Ethiopia[c] and Egypt;
the nations of Put[d] and Libya
were her allies.
10 But she was captured and taken
to a foreign country.
Her children were murdered
at every street corner.
The members of her royal family
were auctioned off,
and her high officials
were bound in chains.
Footnotes
- 3.8 Thebes: In 663 b.c., the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal captured this Egyptian city, which seems to have been built with protection similar to that of Nineveh.
- 3.8 was its … defense: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 3.9 Ethiopia: The Hebrew text has “Cush,” which was a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.
- 3.9 Put: A region in Africa, possibly part of the present country of Libya.
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