Thebes
Thebes Thebes. City appearing in the OT as No, or No-Amon. “No” means city and is equivalent to the Egyptian Waset or Greek Thebes. No-Amon means “city of Amon.” Thebes appears only in the prophetic Scriptures of the OT and only in a context of judgment ( Jer 46:25 ; Ez 30:14–16 ; Na 3:8 ). Thebes would suffer judgment and loss of population, but would not be utterly destroyed. These prophecies were fulfilled in ancient times when Cambyses of Persia marched through in 525 B.C. and when the Roman Cornelius Gallus punished the city for a revolt in 30 B.C. Thebes was the capital of Egypt during most of the Empire period (c. 1570–1100 B.C.) when the Hebrews were in bondage in the land and when the exodus took place. By that time Amon had become the chief god, and the Pharaohs lavished their wealth on the great temples of Amon at Thebes, hoping for the god’s help in overcoming their enemies. The city of the living in ancient Thebes was located on the east bank of...