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Ancient capital of Upper Egypt — Nahum invoked its fall to warn Nineveh of the same fate
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Modern Luxor in southern Egypt. UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ashurbanipal's 663 BC destruction is recorded both in Assyrian royal annals and in the city's archaeological layers — exactly the event Nahum cites.
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).
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