Nahum 3:9 “Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her all…”

Nahum 3:9

Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and there was none ende: Put and Lubim were her helpers.

Darby Translation

Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.

Young's Literal Translation

Cush her might, and Egypt, and there is no end. Put and Lubim have been for thy help.

Bible in Basic English

Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.

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Cross references

“Ethiopia”

Isaiah 20:5 Jeremiah 46:9

Isaiah 20:5 · BSB

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

Jeremiah 46:9 · BSB

Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth— Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.

“Put”

Ezekiel 27:10 Ezekiel 30:5 Genesis 10:6 Ezekiel 38:5 1 Chronicles 1:8

Ezekiel 27:10 · BSB

Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.

Ezekiel 30:5 · BSB

Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.

Genesis 10:6 · BSB

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Ezekiel 38:5 · BSB

Persia, Cush, and Put will accompany them, all with shields and helmets,

1 Chronicles 1:8 · BSB

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Also

2 Chronicles 12:3

2 Chronicles 12:3 · BSB

with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

10Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

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