At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

Tehaphnehes - called from the queen of Egypt, Tahpenes, and sister to the wife of Hadad, of the royal seed of Edom, who fled from Edom to Pharaoh, and afterward became Solomon's adversary, as is mentioned in . The same as Daphne near Pelusium, a royal residence of the Pharaohs (; ). Called Hanes ().

When I shall break there the yokes of Egypt - i:e., the tyrannical supremacy which she exercised over other nations. Compare "the bands of their yoke" ().

A cloud shall cover her - "a cloud," namely, of calamity.

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