Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Populous Alexandria. No-Amon. A populous city of Egypt, destroyed by the Chaldeans, and afterwards rebuilt by Alexander, and called Alexandria. Others suppose No-Amon to be the same as Diospolis. Challoner.—This seems preferable, as it was amidst waters and near the Mediterranean. Profane historians take little notice of it, as it was greatly reduced. Bochart fixes upon Memphis, others upon the temple of Ammon. But these were too remote from the sea. Calmet.—The former was however near the Nile, ( Bible.) which is sometimes called a sea. Calmet.—S. Jerom thinks that Alexandria stood on the ruins of No. Worthington.—Yet of this we have no proof. It is thought that Nahum alludes to the devastation caused by Nabuchodonosor. As Juda however was still in his kingdom, it seems rather that Assaraddon, (Isaiah 20) or his predecessor, Sennacherib, ( Calmet.) laid waste this city. 4 Kennicott. 18:21. Usher, A. 3292.
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