Ezekiel 30:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. WORTH. This is the past tense (_weorth_) of Anglo-Saxon _weorthan_, to become. It means Woe he to the day! Hebrew. Alas for the day!... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAY OF THE LORD. See notes on Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 13:6. and Revelation 1:10. THE TIME of, &c.: i.e. the season in which their power shall be judged and broken. HEATHEN. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
ETHIOPIA. Hebrew Cush, allied with Egypt. Compare Ezekiel 30:9. and Jeremiah 46:9. Also resorted to for help by Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIBYA. Lydia. Hebrew Phut... Led. Compare Ezekiel 27:10; Genesis 10:6. These were an African people. Compare Jeremiah 46:9; Nahum 3:9. MINGLED PEOPLE. mixed multitude: i.e. the allies of Babylon. Compare Jeremiah 25:20. CHUB. Perhaps Caba, in Mauretania, or Cobe, in Ethiopia. MEN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TOWER, &c. See note on Ezekiel 29:10. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM ME. frorn before Me. IN SHIPS. Going up the Nile. The Septuagint reads "hastening" or "running"; but note that Ethiopia sent messengers in ships to promise help to Judah, but Jehovah sent His messengers in ships to prophesy her judgment. AS IN THE DAY. Many codices (including the Hillel Codex... [ Continue Reading ]
NEBUCHADRESZAR. See notes on Ezekiel 26:7, and Ezekiel 29:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKED. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
IDOLS. manufactured gods. IMAGES. things of nought. NOPH. Memphis. Now _Abu Sir_.... [ Continue Reading ]
PATHROS. Upper, or Southern Egypt. ZOAN. Tanis: now San; an ancient Egyptian city in Lower Egypt (Numbers 13:22.Psalms 78:12; Psalms 78:12). See note on Isaiah 30:4. NO. No Ammon. Now Thebes (Nahum 3:8). Compare Jeremiah 46:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN. Pelasium, in the Egyptian delta. See Ezekiel 29:10. the multitude of No. Heb Hamon. No. Compare Ezekiel 30:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AVEN. On, or Heliopolis (Beth. shemesh, city or house of the Sun), north of Memphis. PI-BESETH. In some codices written as one word; in others as two words: _Pi_ being "the" in Coptic, and _Pasht_. the Egyptian goddess _Artemis_. Now _Tel Basta_, in the Delta, north of Memphis.... [ Continue Reading ]
TEHAPHNEHES. See note on Jeremiah 43:7. Greek name _Daphne_. Now _Tel Defenneh_. See App-87. THE YOKES OF EGYPT. The yokes imposed by Egypt on other peoples. Genitive of Origin. See App-17.; and Compare Ezekiel 34:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELEVENTH YEAR. About four months before the fall of Jerusalem. See table on p. 1106.... [ Continue Reading ]
A ROLLER. a bandage.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL KNOW, &c. See note on Ezekiel 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]