Ezekiel 30
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Chapter 30
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Verses:
The steps by which Nebuchadrezzar would destroy Egypt, ver. 1 - 19.
A repetition of a former prophecy against it, ver. 20 - 26.
| 30:2 | Ye - Inhabitants of Egypt. |
| 30:3 | A cloudy day - So times of trouble are called.Of the heathen - The time when God will reckon with the Heathens. |
| 30:4 | Ethiopia - The neighbour and ally to Egypt.Take away - Into miserable captivity.Her foundations - Their government, laws, and strong holds. |
| 30:5 | Lydia - Not the Asiatic, but the Africans placed between some part of Cyrene and Egypt. The mingled people - The hired soldiers from all parts, a confused mixture of nations.And Chub - The inhabitants of the inmost Libya; perhaps they may be the Nubians at this day. The men - All the allies of Egypt.With them - With the Egyptians. |
| 30:6 | Upheld - Those that favour and help her.The pride - The glory of all her strength. |
| 30:7 | They - All those before mentioned. |
| 30:8 | Destroyed - The fire that consumes nations is of God's kindling: and when he sets fire to a kingdom, all they that go about to quench the fire, shall be consumed by it. |
| 30:9 | Messengers - Such as having escaped the sword, shall tell the news.From me - By my permission and providence. In ship's - Messengers by ships might carry the news to both the Ethiopian, Asian, and African, by the Red - sea. As in the day - During the mighty havock made by the Chaldeans. It - A like storm. |
| 30:11 | His people - His own subjects, not hired soldiers. |
| 30:12 | The rivers dry - Probably the Chaldeans diverted them, and so their fortified towns wanted one great defence. Sell - Give it up entirely. |
| 30:13 | Noph - Memphis, now Grand Cairo, the chief city of the country. A prince - Either an Egyptian born, or independent, and over all Egypt. A fear - Consternation and cowardice. |
| 30:14 | In Zoan - Zoan shall be burnt down to ashes. In No - A great and populous city situate on one of the mouths of the Nile. |
| 30:15 | Sin - Pelusium, which was the key of Egypt, and therefore always well fortified, and strongly garrisoned. |
| 30:16 | Shall be rent - Her walls, and towers, and fortresses broken through by the violence of engines, and by the assaults of the soldiers. |
| 30:17 | Young men - 'Tis probable these might be a body of valiant youths, collected out of these ten cities. Aven - Bethshemesh, or Heliopolis, an idolatrous city, in which was a stately temple of the sun: an hundred and fifty furlongs, that is six miles and three quarters in compass. Phibeseth - Bubastus, sometimes called Hoephestus, not far from Aven. |
| 30:18 | Tehaphnehes - A great and goodly city of Egypt; Tachapanes, Tachpanes, Tahapanes, Tahpanes, Chanes, and Hanes, are names given it, and this from a queen of Egypt of that name in Solomon's time. It stood not far from Sin, or Pelusium. Darkened - A night shall come upon it. Break - I shall break the kingdom of Egypt, that it no more oppress with yokes, that is, burdens.Her daughters - Her towns and villages. |
| 30:20 | The eleventh year - Of Jeconiah's captivity, three months and two days before Jerusalem was taken, about the time that the Egyptians attempted to raise the siege of Jerusalem. |
| 30:21 | Have broken - Partly by the victory of the Chaldeans over Pharaoh - necho, partly by the victory of the Cyreneans over Pharaoh - hophra. The sword - None can heal the wounds that God gives but himself. They whom he disables, cannot again hold the sword. |
| 30:22 | His arms - Both his arms. The strong - That part of his kingdom which remains entire. Broken - That which was shattered before. |
| 30:25 | Will strengthen - As judges on the bench like Pilate, so generals in the field, like Nebuchadrezzar, have no power but what is given them from above. |