George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 29:17
Year: fifteen (Calmet) or seventeen years after the preceding prophecy, (ver. 1.; Worthington) but on the same subject.
Year: fifteen (Calmet) or seventeen years after the preceding prophecy, (ver. 1.; Worthington) but on the same subject.
Verse Ezekiel 29:17. _THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR_] That is, of the _captivity of Jeconiah, fifteen_ years after the taking of _Jerusalem_; about _April_ 20, 3432. The _preceding_ prophecy was delive...
The prophet places this prediction out of chronological order, that he may point out what had not been stated in the foregoing prophecy, namely, that the agent who should strike the first blow on Egyp...
Ezekiel 29-30. First Egypt's desolation is announced (Ezekiel 29:1). The king of Egypt addressed in this prophecy was Pharaoh-Hophra, called in Greek, Apries. He was the grandson of Pharaoh-Necho, who...
EGYPT AND TYRE. This little oracle, the latest in the book (570 B.C.), is one of the most remarkable. It is a practical admission that Ezekiel's elaborate prophecy of the ruin of Tyre (Ezekiel 26 ff.)...
THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR. See the table, p. 1105....
II. THE PRIZE OF EGYPT 29:7-21 TRANSLATION (17) And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son...
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, IN THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR ... THE WORD OF T...
THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR, THE FIRST _month_] March-April, 570 b.c....
EGYPT AS NEBUCHADREZZAR'S WAGES FOR THE SIEGE OF TYRE This is the latest of Ezekiel's dated prophecies, and was uttered nearly sixteen years after the destruction of Jerusalem. Nebuchadrezzar's siege...
§ 3. EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29-32) The most of this series of prophecies against Egypt are connected with dates during the siege of Jerusalem, the time when Ezekiel was silent as a prophet of Israel. They wer...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 29 *PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT – EZEKIEL 29:1-16 V1 It w
IN THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR. — This is the latest date among all Ezekiel’s prophecies, and is more than sixteen years after the prophecy of the former part of the chapter. This date corresponds wi...
וַ יְהִ֗י בְּ עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וָ שֶׁ֨בַע֙ שָׁנָ֔ה
EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:1; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power
TYRE Ezekiel 26:1, Ezekiel 29:17 IN the time of Ezekiel Tyre was still at the height of her commercial prosperity. Although not the oldest of the Phoenician cities, she held a supremacy among them wh...
Ezekiel then uttered the doom of one. Egypt had been the principal foe of the people of God, and against her were uttered seven prophecies, which are placed here in an order of purpose rather than in...
And it came to pass in the (i) seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (i) Counting from the captivity of Jeconiah....
There was a long interval, even of seventeen years, between the first part of this chapter and the prophecy here delivered, and it should seem to have been the last of Ezekiel's prophecies. But there...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29, 30, 31, AND 32. Chapter s 29-32 contain the judgment of Egypt. Egypt sought, in the self-will of man, to take the place which God had in fact given to Neb...
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR,.... Of Jeconiah's captivity; or of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abendana, from Seder Olam Rabba z, observe; though it was in...
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 17. _In the seven and twentieth year._] Of...
_And it came to pass_, &c. The new prophecy, which begins here, is connected with the foregoing, on account of its relating to the same subject, and not on account of its being the next revelation in...
THE CONQUEST AND SPOIL OF EGYPT...
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, after the accession of Zedekiah, and seventeen years after the message contained in the first part of this chapter was delivered, this section thus...
17-21 The besiegers of Tyre obtained little plunder. But when God employs ambitious or covetous men, he will recompense them according to the desires of their hearts; for every man shall have his rew...
THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR OF JECONIAH'S CAPTIVITY, the year after the conquest of Tyre, and the thirty-fifth of Nebuchadnezzar. THE FIRST MONTH; part of our March and April....
Ezekiel 29:17 twenty-seventh H6242 H7651 year H8141 first H7223 first H259 month H2320 word H1697 LORD H3068 sayin
THE ORACLES AGAINST EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29:1 TO EZEKIEL 32:32). This section of the book is composed of seven oracles issued against Egypt. The fact that there are seven is probably deliberate in order to...
THE SECOND ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29:17). This is a late oracle introduced here, because it also refers to Tyre, so that it would not be too far from the Tyre oracles, and because it gives info...
‘And so it was in the twenty seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, caused his army to do...
FIRST MONTH That is, April....
CONTENTS: Prophecy against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: Those who abuse their power will justly be stripped of it. Those who pride themselves in prosperity,...
Ezekiel 29:2. _Set thy face against Pharaoh._ Against the dragon, the alligator, for the Nile once had alligators. The figurative language here is very majestic, and calculated to impress the Egyptian...
_Because they wrought for Me._ SERVICE DONE FOR GOD REWARDED I. The disposal of states and nations is the work of Divine providence. 1. Do we examine this dispensation in reference to the authority...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 29:1 The seventh and last of the nations addressed, Egypt (like Tyre) receives seven oracles. If the chief interest in Tyre was economic, the leading issue for Egypt is militar...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 29:17 This is the latest-dated oracle in the book, coming in April 571 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar’s siege of Tyre had ended with Tyre still in existence but subject to the Babylonians...
THE FIRST OF FOUR Chapter S DIRECTED AGAINST EGYPT (Chap. 29) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“Pharaoh, a monarch with whom the Hebrews were frequently in contact, is represented as vaunting in the security of his...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 29:1 IN THE TENTH YEAR, etc. The precision with which the dates of the several portions of the prophecy against Egypt are given, here and in Ezekiel 29:17; Ez
Now as we get into chapter 29: In the tenth year (Ezekiel 29:1), That would be the year 587 B.C. And in the tenth month, the twelfth day of the month (Ezekiel 29:1), This prophecy came to Ezekiel...
Ezekiel 1:2; Ezekiel 29:1...
In the seven and twentieth year — Of Jeconiah's captivity, the year after the conquest of Tyre....
Does Ezekiel prophesy about an invasion of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar which never actually took place? (For a discussion of the historical accuracy of the prophecies of Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion of Egyp...