“Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.”
Yet she became a captive; her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; and for her nobles, lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains—the catalog of horrors attending Thebes' capture (infanticide, enslavement of nobility) established the precedent Nineveh would follow. The brutality reflects the standard practices of ancient Near Eastern warfare; the comparison suggests that Nineveh, having inflicted such atrocities on others, can expect them in turn. Historical memory becomes warning.
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