Nahum 3:8 BSB — MannaFest

Nahum 3:8

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

BSB

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ASV

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?

KJV

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?

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Art thou better than populous No,.... Or No Amon, a city in Egypt so called, not because the kings of Egypt were nursed and brought up there, as Jarchi and Abarbinel; see Pro 8:30 but from Ham the son of Noah, whose land Egypt was; or from Jupiter Ammon, worshipped there. No Amon signifies the mansion or palace of Ham, or Hamon; the Egyptians, as Herodotus says (h), call Jupiter by the name of Ammon.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

No - It is supposed this was what we now called Alexandria. Art thou greater, stronger, and wiser? Yet all her power was broken, her riches spoiled, and her glory buried in ruins.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

She was fortified both by nature and art, was situate among the rivers. Nile, in several branches, not only watered her fields, but guarded her wall. Her rampart was the sea, the lake of Mareotis, an Egyptian sea, like the sea of Tiberias.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Art thou better than populous No - No-Ammon, or Diospolis, in the Delta, on one branch of the Nile. This is supposed to be the city mentioned by Nahum; and which had been lately destroyed, probably by the Chaldeans. The waters round about it - Being situated in the Delta, it had the fork of two branches of the Nile to defend it by land; and its barrier or wall was the sea, the Mediterranean, into which these branches emptied themselves: so that this city, and the place it stood on, were wholly surrounded by the waters.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲתֵֽיטְבִי֙	ha.tei.te.Vi	¿ have you been made good	H3190 →
מִנֹּ֣א	mi.No'	more than No	H4996 →
אָמ֔וֹן	'a.Mon	Amon	H528 →
הַיֹּֽשְׁבָה֙	hai.yo.she.Vah	that was dwelling	H3427 →
בַּיְאֹרִ֔ים	bay.'o.Rim	among the canals	H2975 →
מַ֖יִם	Ma.yim	water	H4325 →
סָבִ֣יב	sa.Viv	[was] all around	H5439 →
לָ֑הּ	Lah	<to> it
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
חֵ֣יל	cheil	rampart	H2426 →
יָ֔ם	Yam	[was the] sea	H3220 →
מִיָּ֖ם	mi.Yam	[was] from sea	H3220 →
חוֹמָתָֽהּ׃	cho.ma.Tah	wall its	H2346 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3220yam[was the] sea396×

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

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Amos 6:2
Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
leads to
- Genesis 10:10
  His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- 2 Kings 18:34
  Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- 2 Chronicles 26:6
  Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then he built cities near Ashdod and among the Philistines.
- Isaiah 10:9–11
  “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- 1 Samuel 17:4
  Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Nahum

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Nahum