Nahum 2:10 (KJV)

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She is empty and void and waste and the heart melteth and the knees smite together and much pain is in all loins and the faces of them all gather blackness

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empty. Na 3:7 Ge 1:2 Isa 13:19-22 Isa 14:23 Isa 24:1 Isa 34:10-15 Jer 4:23-26 Jer 51:62 Zep 2:13-15 Zep 3:6 Re 18:21-23

the heart. Jos 2:11 Ps 22:14 Isa 13:7 Isa 13:8

the knees. Da 5:6

and much. Isa 21:3 Jer 30:6

and the faces. Joe 2:6

She is.Nineveh was taken and utterly ruined by Assuerus, or Cyaxares, king of Media, and Nabuchodonosor, or Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, B.C. 606, or 612. Diodorus, who with others ascribes the taking of it to Arbaces the Mede and Belesis the Babylonian, says that he "dispersed the citizens in the villages, levelled the city with the ground, transferred the gold and silver, of which there were many talents, to Ecbatana the metropolis of the Medes, and this subverted the empire of the Assyrians."

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