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, forgetting that God is proprietor of the earth, will be forced out of it. God may even use bad men as tools to bring about His purposes.
Key Word: Desolations, Ezekiel 29:9.
CHAPTER XXIX _This and the three following chapters foretell the conquest of_ _Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar, which he accomplished in the_ twenty-seventh _year of Jehoiachin's captivity. The same event_...
THE TENTH YEAR - Jerusalem had been besieged, but not taken. Jeremiah delivered his prophecy against Egypt, about the time when the approach of Pharaoh Hophra’s army caused the Chaldaeans for the time...
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 29-32. ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT. Next and last to be denounced is Egypt, the great rival of Babylon, and consequently the opponent of Yahweh's purpose. The separate oracles were written either not...
IN THE TENTH YEAR, &c.: i.e.. year and two days after the siege of Jerusalem began (Jeremiah 39:1), and six months, less three days, before its fall. See notes on p. 1105. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_...
Prophecy against Egypt With the exception of the passage ch. Ezekiel 29:17-21 the prophecies against Egypt belong to a time shortly anterior to the fall of Jerusalem or shortly after it. Ch. 29 is da...
IN THE TENTH YEAR, &C.— The tenth year is that from the taking of Jerusalem: according to Usher, about the year of the world 3415. The prophesies in this and the three following Chapter s respect Egyp...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE ECLIPSE OF EGYPT 29:1-32:32 In the four Chapter s devoted to Egypt Ezekiel speaks seven words from the Lord. All but one of these words are given specific dating. Why such a larg...
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, This is the last of the world-kingdoms against which Ezekiel's prophecies are dire...
THE TENTH YEAR.. THE TENTH _MONTH_] January-February, 587 b.c., about seven months before the fall of Jerusalem....
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CROCODILE Pharaoh is compared to the crocodile of the Nile. God will drag him forth with hooks, and cast him, with the fish that stick to his scales, into the wilderness, as a p...
§ 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 TENTH YEAR, IN THE TENTH MONTH. — This was exactly a year and two days after the investment of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (Ezekiel 24:1; 2 Kings 25:1), and about six months before its fall, or...
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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
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...
In the (a) tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (a) That is, of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of the reign of Zedekiah. Of the...
Eleventh. Hebrew, "twelfth." Septuagint, "first of the twelfth month of the twelfth year." There are other variations in the versions. St. Jerome reads the first in Hebrew, as Theodoret does, who says...
CONTENTS In this chapter comes in the threatened overthrow of Egypt. The Lord is reckoning with the nations, and Israel's ancient foe must not go unpunished....
Here are sad things to be done for the humbling of Egypt, and which God will certainly accomplish. But what I particularly beg the Reader to observe, because it is indeed the general cause the Lord as...
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...
IN THE TENTH YEAR, IN THE TENTH MONTH, IN THE TWELFTH DAY OF THE MONTH,.... In the tenth year Jeconiah's captivity, and Zedekiah's reign. The Septuagint version has it, the twelfth year; and the Arabi...
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _In the tenth year._] The year before Jerusalem was taken. Eze 24:1 _ I...
_In the tenth year_, &c. The prophecies of Ezekiel, in regard to foreign nations, are not placed according to the order of time in which they were delivered, but according to the respective distances...
In the tenth year, namely, after Jehoiachin had been deposed and led away into captivity, IN THE TENTH MONTH, IN THE TWELFTH DAY OF THE MONTH, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,...
THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH'S POWER AND THE SUBSEQUENT RESTORATION OF EGYPT...
1-16 Worldly, carnal minds pride themselves in their property, forgetting that whatever we have, we received it from God, and should use it for God. Why, then, do we boast? Self is the great idol whi...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 29 The judgment upon Pharaoh for his treachery to Israel, EZEKIEL 29:1. The desolation of Egypt, and restoration of it after forty years, EZEKIEL 29:8. Egypt the reward of Nebuchadrezz...
Ezekiel 29:1 tenth H6224 year H8141 tenth H6224 twelfth H8147 H6240 month H2320 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying...
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 FIRST ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29:1). In this oracle Egypt is likened to a monster crocodile which Yahweh will hunt and dispose of (2-5), because of Pharaoh's pretensions (Ezekiel 29:3), and...
‘In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and a...
TENTH MONTH That is, January....
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...
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...
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 20:1; Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 40:1;...
The tenth year — Of Jeconiah's captivity....