9 Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.
Persia and Lud and Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged shield and helmet in thee; they gave splendour to thee.
Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: Libyans, Sukkites, and Ethiopians.
And they shall be terrified and ashamed of Ethiopia their confidence, and of Egypt their boast.
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Commentary on Nahum 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
This chapter goes on with the burden of Nineveh, and concludes it.
Nah 3:1-7
Here is,
Nah 3:8-19
Nineveh has been told that God is against her, and then none can be for her, to stand her in any stead; yet she sets God himself at defiance, and his power and justice, and says, I shall have peace. Threatened folks live long; therefore here the prophet largely shows how vain her confidences would prove and insufficient to ward off the judgment of God. To convince them of this,