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Oppression Will EndThe Watchtower—1981 | September 1
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That the “city of bloodshed” would suffer such a fate may have seemed unbelievable to many. However, the foretold event was not without historical precedent. Nahum called attention to this with the words: “Are you better than No-amon, that was sitting by the Nile canals? Waters were all around her, whose wealth was the sea, whose wall was from the sea.
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Oppression Will EndThe Watchtower—1981 | September 1
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The Assyrians knew well what had befallen No-amon, or Thebes. Their armies, under the command of King Ashurbanipal, had razed Thebes to the ground. The city’s “wall”—her defenses, including the Nile and its canals—had failed.
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