Ezekiel 30:1-19
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
§ 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 were therefore probably written rather than spoken. Ezekiel 32 is dated in the year after the fall of J... [ Continue Reading ]
LIBYA, AND LYDIA] RV 'Put and Lud': see on Ezekiel 27:10. CHUB] an unknown people. THE LAND THAT IS IN LEAGUE] perhaps we should read, 'the land of the Cherethites' (Philistia).... [ Continue Reading ]
IN SHIPS] ascending the Nile to Ethiopia.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOPH] Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZOAN] Tanis, an ancient Egyptian city (Numbers 13:22). NO] No-ammon, or Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN] Pelusium, a frontier city at the NE. extremity of the Delta of the Nile.... [ Continue Reading ]
AVEN] On, or Heliopolis: see. Genesis 41:45; Genesis 41:50; Genesis 46:20. It lay on the E. edge of the Delta. PI-BESETH] Bubastis, a city of Lower Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
TEHAPHNEHES (or Tahpanhes)] Daphnæ, a city on the E. frontier of Lower Egypt: see Jeremiah 43:7; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 46:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELEVENTH YEAR.. THE FIRST _month_] March-April, 586 b.c., about four months before the fall of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BREAKING OF PHARAOH'S ARMS This prophecy appears to have been occasioned by some reverse sustained by Pharaoh shortly before the fall of Jerusalem. Probably the reference is to the failure of his attempt to raise the siege (Jeremiah 37:5). The disaster is metaphorically described as the breakin... [ Continue Reading ]
ROLLER] bandage.... [ Continue Reading ]