Nahum 3:8

Nineveh was similar to the Egyptian capital, No-amon ("city of the god Amon," Gr. Thebes). Thebes had been the capital of Upper (southern) Egypt and had stood at the site of modern Karnak and Luxor, 400 miles south of Cairo. Water from rivers, tributaries, canals, and moats surrounded this city, as it did Nineveh, and both were capitals of mighty kingdoms. However, Thebes had fallen to Sargon the Assyrian in 663 B.C. Jeremiah and Ezekiel predicted its fall (Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 30:14; Ezekiel 30:16). Its solid and liquid defenses did not protect it, and Nineveh’s would not protect it either.