Nahum 3:9
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Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the Libyans were thy helpers.

2 Chronicles 12:3
With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.

2 Chronicles 16:8
Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?

Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.

Jeremiah 46:9
Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield, and the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.

Ezekiel 27:10
The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.

Ezekiel 30:5
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.

Ezekiel 31:2
Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?

Ezekiel 38:5
The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields and helmets.

Daniel 11:43
And he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt: and he shall pass through Libya, and Ethiopia.

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Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the Libyans were thy helpers.

Ethiopia.

Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.

Jeremiah 46:9 Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield, and the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.

Put.

Genesis 10:6 And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

1 Chronicles 1:8 The sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesrai, and Phut, and Chanaan.

Ezekiel 27:10 The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.

Ezekiel 30:5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.

Ezekiel 38:5 The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields and helmets.

thy helpers.

Context
Judgment Against Nineveh
8Art thou better than the populous Alexandria, that dwelleth among the rivers? waters are round about it: the sea is its riches: the waters are its walls. 9Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the Libyans were thy helpers.10Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.…
Lexicon
Cush
כּ֥וּשׁ (kūš)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3568: A son of Ham, also his descendants, also a land in the southern Nile Valley

and Egypt
וּמִצְרַ֖יִם (ū·miṣ·ra·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

were her boundless
וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

strength;
עָצְמָ֛ה (‘ā·ṣə·māh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6109: Powerfulness, numerousness

Put
פּ֣וּט (pūṭ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6316: Put -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land

and Libya
וְלוּבִ֔ים (wə·lū·ḇîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3864: Lubim -- inhabitants of North Africa

were
הָי֖וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

her allies.
בְּעֶזְרָתֵֽךְ׃ (bə·‘ez·rā·ṯêḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5833: Help, helper, assistance


Additional Translations
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were your helpers.

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers.

Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Cush and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

Cush her might, and Egypt, and there is no end. Put and Lubim have been for thy help.
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