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Thebes was one of the great cities of Upper Egypt, later known in some biblical passages as No or No-amon. It is important because prophets invoke it as a symbol of Egyptian power brought low under divine judgment. First appears in Jer 46:25.1
AI summary: Thebes appears in Scripture not mainly through narrative events in Israel's history but through prophetic comparison and warning. Nahum uses the city's fall to challenge Nineveh's false confidence, while Jeremiah and Ezekiel include it within judgments against Egypt. Because Thebes was famous and ancient, its mention signals the humbling of a major world center rather than a minor outpost. The cross references present Thebes as a great Egyptian city whose downfall became a lesson for other powers.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.