John Trapp on Nahum 3:8

Ver. 8. Art thou better then populous No?] Heb. No Amon a great corn-countrey, and therefore populous:Amon i.e. Nu. tritia Alma mater for where victuall and good trading is to be had, thither people will repaire apace. No (that is Alexandria) was the nurfing mother of Egypt: and Egypt was called the worlds barn or ſtorehouſe, horreum unde hauriatur Gen. 42.1. It is called Ier. 46.25. Amon de No, and Ezek. 30.11. Hamon No, and Verſe 14.16. No, without any addition. This was the old name of this city, before it was deſtroyed by Nebuchadnezzar: to whom God had given Egypt as his pay for his paines in taking Tyre. It was reedified by Alexander the great, and he called it after his own name Alexandria. Amon it was called, for the reaſons above-given. Though there be that ſech that name of it from Ham the ſon of Noah. Theodoret will have it ſo called from Iupiter Hammon, whoſe ſonne,Lib. 2 p. 51. Pauſan: Lib. 3. Lib. de Iſid. et Oſirid Alexander deſired to be held: and from whom the Egyptian husbandmen were called Ammonii, and their arable Ammonia, as Herodotus writeth. Plutarch alſo telleth us, that the Africans worſhip an unknowne God by the name of Amon, that is (in their language) Heus, tu quis es? This city therefore is called No Amon, probably to diſtinguiſh it from other cities of the ſame name; as Alexandria Egypti, Caeſarea Philippi, Auguſta Vindelicorum. &c. Ioſephus ſaith that it abounded in people,Lib. 2. de bell. Iud. Gap. 16. and wealth: being little leſſe then Hieruſalem in compaſſe. Thinkeſt thou now O Niniveh, (ſaith God here) that thou art in a better or ſafer condition, then this city once was? but I am magnum infoelix nil niſi nomen habet. Let Niniveh go to Ieruſalem, Succurrat illud mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur. to Shiloh Ier. 7.12. and do as Scipio did, when, beholding the downfall of Carthage, he fore-ſaw and bewailed the like future deſtiny of Rome his own countrey.

That was ſituate amnng the rivers] which is held the beſt ſituation for profit, pleaſure,Lib. 17. and ſtrength.

That had the waters round about it [The river Nilus begirt it, (ſaith Strabo,) but could not mott it up from Gods fire. See Pſal. 33.17. Prov. 21.30. with the Note.

Whoſe rampart was the ſea, and her wall was from the ſea] She had the Egyptian ſea on one ſide, and the lake of Mareôtis on the other, which the Hebrews called the Sea.