...cavalry, stormed the smaller towns, and after a siege of some duration took " populous No," or Thebes, " that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the great deep " (Nahum iii. 8). All Egypt was overrun from the Mediterranean to the First Cataract ; thousands...

...asked of her conquerors whether their strength was greater than once hers had been.1 "Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, 1 "The very date of his prophecy, so long disputed, can be fixed approximately by the reference it...

...whom art thou like in thy greatness ?" "I am Pharaoh." "By the life of Pharaoh." " Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her, whose rampart was the Nile, and her wall was from the river ? " Homer knew of Thebes as the city...

...this the prophet Nahum writes (3. 8. 9) in his denunciation of Nineveh, 'Art thou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her, whose rampart was the sea (ie the Nile), and her wall was of the sea: Ethiopia and Egypt were...

...in Nahnm. where the prophet warns Nineveh by her rival's overthrow. "Art thou better than No-Amon, that- was situate among the rivers, [that had] the...rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the »ea?" Notwithstanding her natural as well as political strength, Thebes had been sacked and the people...

...thus speaks of the Kile, when he warns Nineveh by the ruin of Thebes : " Art tbou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the...round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wnll [was] from the sea?" (iii, 8). Here the river is spoken of as the rampart, and perhapi as the...

...that the green plain — green with the verdure of Egypt, green 1 Nahum iii. 8, AV : 'Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers,...waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, ami her wall was from the sea ? ' as the Vega of Granada — which spreads, east and west, for an unwonted...

...that the green plain — green with the verdure of Egypt, green 1 Nahum iii. 8, AV : ' Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers,...that had the waters round about it, whose rampart vias the sea, ami her wall was from the sea ! ' as the Vega of Granada — which spreads, east and...

...upon our pedestal. Let us not be unthankful to God, not forgetful of other nations. " Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers,...waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea," &c. (Nan. iii. 8, 9) f II. Indifference to God's warning. " You put away the evil day." As Israel despised...

...(iii. 8-10). Nineveh itself is threatened with the same overthrow. ' Art thou better than No of Amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, (the Nile), and her wall was from the sea ? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite...