Nahum 3:8

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 25:19

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people;

Jeremiah 46:12

The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land; for the mighty man has stumbled over the mighty, and they both have fallen together.

Ezekiel 29:15

It shall be the basest of the kingdoms, and it shall exalt itself no more above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they shall rule over the nations no more.

Amos 6:2

Cross over to Kalneh and see, and go from there to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines— are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory?