Nahum 3:9

Nahum chapter 3 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Context

v.8Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

v.9This passage

v.10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 10:6

    And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

  • Ezekiel 30:5

    Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

  • Ezekiel 38:5

    Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

  • 2 Chronicles 12:3

    with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

  • Jeremiah 46:9

    Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

  • Ezekiel 27:10

    Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.