Thebes

The ancient capital of Upper Egypt — called No or No-Amon in Hebrew — and one of the wealthiest and most populous cities of the ancient world. The prophet Nahum used Thebes' fall to Ashurbanipal of Assyria in 663 BC as the proof of his judgment oracle against Nineveh, asking whether Israel's enemy was really any better than Thebes, situated on the Nile with water around her (Nahum 3:8-10). Ezekiel and Jeremiah named Thebes in their oracles against Egypt, prophesying its further breaching and the captivity of its population (Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 30:14-16).