Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 30:12
The rivers dry — Probably the Chaldeans diverted them, and so their fortified towns wanted one great defence. Sell — Give it up entirely.
The rivers dry — Probably the Chaldeans diverted them, and so their fortified towns wanted one great defence. Sell — Give it up entirely.
Verse Ezekiel 30:12. _I WILL MAKE THE RIVERS DRY_] As the _overflowing_ of the Nile was the grand cause of fertility to Egypt, the _drying_ it up, or preventing that _annual inundation_, must be the...
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...
EZEKIEL 30. THE DESOLATION OF EGYPT. The interrupted denunciation of Egypt is resumed. The neighbours and allies will be involved in her ruin, which is to be effected by Nebuchadrezzar and his terribl...
WICKED. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44....
I WILL MAKE THE RIVERS DRY, &C.— "I will destroy the strength of Egypt." The metaphor is taken from the decrease or falling of the Nile, upon the overflowings of which all the plenty and prosperity of...
III THE IMMINENT FALL OF EGYPT 30:1-19 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord GOD: Wail, woe be the day! (3) For the day...
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. I WILL M...
30:12 therein, (d-29) Lit. 'and the fulness thereof.'...
THE INVASION OF EGYPT BY NEBUCHADREZZAR No special enemy of Egypt has been mentioned in Ezekiel 29:1, but the king of Babylon is now pointed out as its conqueror....
§ 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 30 THE ATTACK ON EGYPT – EZEKIEL 30:1-19 V1 The *LOR
MAKE THE RIVERS DRY — _i.e.,_ the canals of Egypt, by which the land was irrigated, and on which its fertility depended. It may also include the comparative drying, the lessening of the inundation of...
וְ נָתַתִּ֤י יְאֹרִים֙ חָֽרָבָ֔ה וּ מָכַרְתִּ֥י...
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
The third prophecy described the process by which Nebuchadnezzar would accomplish the purpose of Jehovah. It opens with an introductory word announcing the nearness of the day of the Lord, and foretel...
_Dry. The canals were obstructed (Calmet) which rendered cavalry useless. (Herodotus ii. 108.)_...
The Lord's anger will be excited against all that come to the help of Egypt; for this is rebellion against the Lord. Reader! it is an awful thing to be found fighting against God. When good King Josia...
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 I WILL MAKE THE RIVERS DRY,.... Egypt was a country that abounded with rivers; however, with canals cut from the river Nile; its wealth and riches very much depended here on, partly on account of...
_And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken [it]._ Ver. 1...
_I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease_ I will diminish the number of its inhabitants. _I will make the rivers dry_ The fertility of Egypt depending on the rise and overflowing of the Nile, the...
And I will make the rivers dry, thereby taking away from the land some of its natural means of defense and the sources of its prosperity, Deuteronomy 32:30, AND SELL THE LAND INTO THE HAND OF THE WICK...
THE SENTENCE CARRIED OUT...
DRY: _ Heb._ drought ALL THAT IS THEREIN: _ Heb._ the fullness thereof...
1-19 The prophecy of the destruction of Egypt is very full. Those who take their lot with God's enemies, shall be with them in punishment. The king of Babylon and his army shall be instruments of thi...
I WILL MAKE THE RIVERS DRY; either by some extraordinary drought, or rather by means of that mighty lake, which drew so much water from Nilus, that all their canals were ever after shallow, and the la...
Ezekiel 30:12 make H5414 (H8804) rivers H2975 dry H2724 sell H4376 (H8804) land H776 hand H3027 wicked...
“And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hands of evil men. And I will make the land desolate, and all that is in it by the hand of strangers. I Yahweh have spoken it.” Egypt w...
CONTENTS: Egypt in the day of Jehovah. God against Pharaoh in the war with Babylon. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Nothing can protect a provoking people when God com...
Ezekiel 30:5. _Ethiopia, Libya, and Lydia_ or Ludd. These allies of Egypt fell alike under the Assyrians, justly called “the bloody Assyrians.” The western shores of the Nile were then fertile distric...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 30:1 The third of the seven anti-Egypt oracles is the only undated one. It is comprised of four related prophecies. Each is introduced by THUS SAYS THE LORD (vv....
THE DOOM OF EGYPT (Chap. 30) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This chapter contains two distinct messages: Ezekiel 30:1 being an extension, with more life-like detail, of the prophecy announced in chap. Ezekiel 29:1...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 30:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME AGAIN, etc. The section that follows, ending with Ezekiel 30:18, is exceptional as standing without a date. It may be either (1) a continuation of t...
In chapter 30: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! (Ezekiel 30:1-2) So he is going around howling, "Wo...
1 Corinthians 10:26; Ezekiel 28:10; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 31:12;...