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Nahum 3:9 Explained in Context
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Verse 9. 9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
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Role in This Section
Lists Cush, Egypt, Put, and Libya as Thebes' apparently boundless strength and allies before the adversative reversal.
Read It With
- Nahum 3:8-11
Read Nahum 3:9 with 3:8-11. Lists Cush, Egypt, Put, and Libya as Thebes' apparently boundless strength and allies before the adversative reversal. The complete unit establishes this movement: Thebes had water defenses and formidable allies, yet Assyria conquered and brutalized it; Nineveh therefore cannot treat its own security as exceptional and will seek refuge from the same kind of enemy violence.
Why It Needs Context
Lists Cush, Egypt, Put, and Libya as Thebes' apparently boundless strength and allies before the adversative reversal. That contribution depends on Nahum 3:8-11; isolated teaching would detach this image from the complete poetic movement.
Continue in Context
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Read Nahum 3:8-11 — Nineveh Cannot Claim Greater Security than Fallen ThebesSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: Nahum 3:8-11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nahum
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew words, morphology, clause relationships, repeated roots, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Nah.xml, 3:8-11
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