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?
 

3:8 populous No. “Populous No,” possibly better translated “No-Amon” (Amon being its chief deity), was the magnificent city of Thebes, in upper Egypt. It was invaded and cruelly destroyed by the Assyrians in about 666 B.C., as mentioned in Nahum 3:10. Thus, chapter 3 of Nahum’s prophecy must have been written after this.

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