Amon of No i.e. the chief god worshipped in No (cp. No-Amon, Nahum 3:8). Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt (now Luxor), a city of great interest from its remains of antiquity in the way of sculpture and tombs. It supplanted Memphis as a great centre, but declined under the Ptolemies. See Ezekiel 30:14 ff. Amon was represented in various ways, e.g. as a figure with a ram's head and human body. "In course of time he absorbed into himself almost all the other deities of Egypt." Sayce, Anc. Empires, p. 63.

and Pharaoh … her kings omit with LXX.

them that trust in him those Jews who still persistently trusted in Egypt as a support against Babylon.

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