“Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?”
Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?—the reference to Egypt's Thebes (No-Amon), destroyed by Assyria itself, provides a historical parallel and warning. Thebes, once mighty and protected by location and fortification, fell to Assyrian arms; Nineveh's boasted strength offers no greater protection than Thebes possessed. The comparison aims to shatter Nineveh's confidence in its security.
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