Nahum 3:8 — Nineveh, do you feel safer
than the city of Thebes?
The Nile River
was its wall… — CEV | maBible
Read Nahum 3:8 (Contemporary English Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Nahum 3.8, Nahum 3v8, Na. 3:8. Nineveh, do you feel safer
than the city of Thebes?
The Nile River
was its wall of defense.
Other reference formats: Nahum 3.8, Nahum 3v8, Na. 3:8.
8 Nineveh, do you feel safer
than the city of Thebes?
The Nile River
was its wall of defense.
Notes and references
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.
was its … defense: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.