No-Amon

No-Amon (Hebrew No Amon, "city of Amon") was the ancient Egyptian capital of Upper Egypt, known to the Greeks as Thebes and located on both banks of the Nile approximately 400 miles south of Cairo. It was one of the greatest cities of antiquity, famed for its massive temples to the god Amon at Karnak and Luxor, and served as Egypt's capital during much of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 B.C.).

The city is mentioned in the prophet Nahum's taunt against Nineveh: "Are you better than No-Amon that sat by the Nile?" (Nah. 3:8). Nahum recalls Thebes's destruction by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (c. 663 B.C.) as a precedent for Nineveh's coming fall. Jeremiah (Jer. 46:25) and Ezekiel (Ezek. 30:14–16) also prophesy against No (Thebes) as part of their oracles against Egypt. Elsewhere the city is referred to simply as "No" in the Authorized Version.