Memphis
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Memphis in the Bible Dictionary
- Also called NOPH
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A celebrated city of Egypt
Hos 9:6
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
Hosea 9:6 -
Prophecies concerning
Isa 19:13; Jer 2:16; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:16
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Isaiah 19:1316 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
Jeremiah 2:1614 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
Jeremiah 46:1419 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 46:1916 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
Ezekiel 30:16
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
