Memphis

Also called NOPH

A celebrated city of Egypt

• Hosea 9:6

  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.

Prophecies concerning

• Isaiah 19:13

  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.

• Jeremiah 2:16

  Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

• Jeremiah 46:14

  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 46:19

  O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

• Ezekiel 30:16

  And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.