Nahum 3:8 Cross References

Nahum 3:8

8: Are you any better than Thebes, surrounded by rivers, protected by water on all sides?

Amos 6:2

  1. Go over to Calneh and see what happened there. Then go to the great city of Hamath and on down to the Philistine city of Gath. You are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed.

Ezekiel 30:14

  1. I will destroy Pathros, Zoan, and Thebes, and they will lie in ruins, burned up by my anger.
  2. I will pour out my fury on Pelusium, the strongest fortress of Egypt, and I will stamp out the people of Thebes.
  3. Yes, I will set fire to all Egypt! Pelusium will be racked with pain; Thebes will be torn apart; Memphis will live in constant terror.

Jeremiah 46:25

  1. The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes, and all the other gods of Egypt. I will punish its rulers and Pharaoh, too, and all who trust in him.
  2. I will hand them over to those who want them killed--to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his army. But afterward the land will recover from the ravages of war. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Isaiah 19:5

  1. The waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields. The riverbed will be parched and dry.
  2. The canals of the Nile will dry up, and the streams of Egypt will become foul with rotting reeds and rushes.
  3. All the greenery along the riverbank will wither and blow away. All the crops will dry up, and everything will die.
  4. The fishermen will weep for lack of work. Those who fish with hooks and those who use nets will all be unemployed.
  5. The weavers will have no flax or cotton, for the crops will fail.

Ezekiel 31:2

  1. "Son of man, give this message to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his people: To whom would you compare your greatness?
  2. You are as Assyria was--a great and mighty nation. Assyria, too, was once like a cedar of Lebanon, full of thick branches that cast deep forest shade with its top high among the clouds.
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