Ezekiel 30:5

Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE - the mercenary troops of Egypt from various lands, mostly from the interior of Africa (cf. ; ; ; ; ). CHUB - the people named Kufa on the monuments (Havernick); a people considerably north of Palestine (Wilkinson); Coba or Chobat, a city of Mauritania (Maurer). THE MEN OF THE LAND THAT IS IN LEAGUE - too definite an expression to mean merely m...

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 this destruction. God often makes one wicked man a scourge to another. No place in the land of Egypt shall escape the fury of the Chaldeans. The Lord is known by the judgments he executes. Yet these are only present effects of the Divine displeasure, not worthy of our fear, compared with the wrath to come, from which Jesus delivers his people....

Verse Ezekiel 30:5. _LYDIA_] This place is not well known. The _Ludim_ were contiguous to Egypt, Genesis 10:13. _CHUB_] The Cubians, placed by Ptolemy in the _Mareotis_. But probably instead of וכוב _vechub_, "and Chub," we should read וכל _vechol_, "and ALL the men of the land," c. The _Septuagint_ adds "the Persians and the Cretans....

LIBYA, AND LYDIA - Or, as in Ezekiel 27:10, Phut and Lud. THE MINGLED PEOPLE - Foreigners, who settled in Egypt. The Saite dynasty of Egyptian kings were especially favorable to foreign immigrants. Hophra employed many of them in his armies, and in this way, according to Herodotus, lost the affections of his Egyptian subjects. See Jeremiah 25:20 note. CHUB - The word occurs here only. It was some tribe in alliance with Egypt, either of African race like Lud and Phut, or settlers like the “mingled people.” A not-improbable suggestion connects it with _Coptos_, of which the Egyptian form was _Qeb_, _Qebt_ or _Qabt_. The men of t

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 the prophecy in Ezekiel 29:17, and so belong to the latest years of Ezekiel's work; or (2) that prophecy may be regarded as standing by itself—a parenthesis inserted at a later date, so that we go back to the earlier word of the Lord in Ezekiel 29:1. Jerome, Havernick, Hitzig, Rosenmüller, Kliefoth, and others are in favor of the former

ETHIOPIA, LYBIA, AND LYDIA,.... Or, "Cush, Phut, and Lud". Cush and Phut were both sons of Ham, from whom Egypt is sometimes called the land of Ham; and Lud or Ludim was the son of Mizraim, the son of Ham, the common name of Egypt in Scripture, Genesis 10:6. Cush is by us rendered Ethiopia; and is thought by some to be a part of Arabia, which lay near to Egypt. Phut and Lud are properly enough rendered Lybia and Lydia; and both these, with Ethiopia, are represented as the allies and confederates of Egypt, Jeremiah 46:9. AND ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE; the Syriac version renders it, "all Arabia": and so Symmachus, according to Jerom; though others think they are the Carians, Ionians, and other Greeks, which Pharaohapries got together to fight with Amasis g: and "Chub"; or "Cub"; the inhabitant

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 defeated King Josiah at Meggido 2 Chronicles 35:20. King Zedekiah of Judah expected help and relief from Pharaoh-Hophra, when Jerusalem was besieged. The Egyptian army under Hophra advanced through Phoenicia and forced the Chaldeans to raise the siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah 37:5. But the relief was only temporary, for the Egyptian army had to retire. The prophet Jeremiah announced also the doom of Hophra, associating it with Zedekiah's doom: “Thus saith the LORD, Behold I will give Pharaoh-Hophra, King of Egypt,

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 terrible army (Ezekiel 30:1). (In Ezekiel 30:5, for Put and Lud see Ezekiel 27:10: for mingled people read Arabians. For Cub, read Lub = Lybians; and for the next clause read the Cretans.) The collapse of Egypt is then described in detail, the towns which are singled out for special mention being all of religious, political, or military importance (Ezekiel 30:13). (In...

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....

LYBIA AND LYDIA— Or, _Mauritania and Abyssinia. All the mingled people,_ mean their mercenaries and auxiliaries; _Chub_ means the _Chubians,_ placed by Ptolemy in the Mareotis. "I do not know (says Calmet) whether the name of Egypt may not be derived from _Cub,_ or _Cubti,_ or _Gubti;—Egubti." The men of the land that is in league,_ mean the neighbouring people, who were confederate with the Egyptians against the king of Babylon....