Nahum 3:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ezek 27:10 : 10 Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.
  • Ezek 30:5 : 5 Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword.
  • Ezek 38:5 : 5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:
  • Gen 10:6 : 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
  • 2 Chr 12:3 : 3 With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.
  • Isa 20:5 : 5 And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.
  • Jer 46:9 : 9 Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.
  • 1 Chr 1:8 : 8 The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.

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