- Noph:
- Noph, or Moph, is the celebrated city of Memphis, as the Chaldee and LXX render; long the residence of the ancient Egyptian kings, and situated fifteen miles above where the Delta begins, on the western side of the Nile. It was in the neighbourhood of Memphis that the famous pyramids were erected, whose grandeur and beauty still astonish the modern traveller. They are about twenty in number; the largest of which is 481 feet perpendicular height, and the area of its basis is on 480,249 square feet, or something more than eleven acres, being exactly the size of Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. The immense ruins between the northern and southern pyramids, and about fourteen miles from Cairo, still called Memf, Menf, or Menouf, seem to mark the site of this city. "The wordª that¹ came¹ to¹ Jeremiahª concerning¹ all¹ the Jewsª which dwellª° in the landª of Egypt,ª which dwellª° at Migdol,ª and at Tahpanhes,ª and at Noph,ª and in the countryª of Pathros,ª saying,ª°" {Jer 44:1} + "Thus¹ saithª° the Lordª GOD;ª I will also destroyª° the idols,ª and I will cause [their] imagesª to ceaseª° out of Noph;ª¹ and there shall be¹ no¹ more¹ a princeª of the landª¹ of Egypt:ª and I will putª° a fearª in the landª of Egypt.ª" {Ezk 30:13}
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