Ezekiel 30:2
_Day of vengeance, (Calmet) when the Lord shall judge, (1 Corinthians v. 2.) and Egypt shall fall a prey to the most powerful nation of the Chaldeans. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Day of vengeance, (Calmet) when the Lord shall judge, (1 Corinthians v. 2.) and Egypt shall fall a prey to the most powerful nation of the Chaldeans. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ethiopia. Hebrew, "Chus," denoting part of Arabia, or rather Ethiopia._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lydia. Hebrew, "Phut," near Egypt. (Calmet) --- These troops were paid. (Haydock) --- Chub, in Mareotis. --- Covenant: the Jews or auxiliaries. Septuagint add, "the Persians and Cretans." (Calmet) --- There were Persians in Africa who followed Hercules. (Pliny, [Natural History?] v. 8.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Messengers; the Chaldeans. (Calmet) --- The Nile was navigable as far as Syene. (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dry. The canals were obstructed (Calmet) which rendered cavalry useless. (Herodotus ii. 108.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, (Calmet) where the idol or bull (Haydock) Apis was fed. (Calmet) --- Here Amasis overcame Apries. (Herodotus ii. 168.) --- The Chaldeans made war on the gods as well as on the people. --- Prince Amasis was tributary to Babylon. Some of this probably regards the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Taphnis, or Tanis, famous for the miracles of Moses. (Calmet) --- Alexandria. In the Hebrew No, which was the ancient name of that city, which was afterwards rebuilt by Alexander the Great, and from his name called Alexandria. (Challoner) --- Septuagint, "Memphis or Diospolis;" (Calmet) or Thebes,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Pelusium. Hebrew Sin, (Haydock) "muddy," has the same import as Greek: pelos. (Calmet) --- The place is now called Damietta. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Darkened: war and misery shall ensue. --- Sceptres, by dethroning Apries. --- Pride; overflowing of the Nile. See Jeremias xlix. 19._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Year, in which Jerusalem was taken. Pharao lost a battle. His country was afterwards invaded, (Calmet) and his subjects rebelled, ver. 21. (Haydock) --- Part of the kingdom had been already subdued, 4 Kings xxiv. 7. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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