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Ezekiel 30:8

And they shall know that I am the Lord when I have set a fire in Egypt, the fire of bitter warfare, carried on by a fierce people and with relentless cruelty, and when all her helpers, allies and all others upon whom Egypt depended, shall be destroyed.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 terribl...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III THE IMMINENT FALL OF EGYPT 30:1-19 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord GOD: Wail, woe be the day! (3) For the day...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, WHEN I HAVE SET A FIRE IN EGYPT, AND WHEN ALL HER HELPERS SHALL BE DESTROYED._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    § 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 wer...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 30 THE ATTACK ON EGYPT – EZEKIEL 30:1-19 V1 The *LOR

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ יָדְע֖וּ כִּֽי ־אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֑ה בְּ תִתִּי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:1; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The third prophecy described the process by which Nebuchadnezzar would accomplish the purpose of Jehovah. It opens with an introductory word announcing the nearness of the day of the Lord, and foretel...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord's anger will be excited against all that come to the help of Egypt; for this is rebellion against the Lord. Reader! it is an awful thing to be found fighting against God. When good King Josia...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29, 30, 31, AND 32. Chapter s 29-32 contain the judgment of Egypt. Egypt sought, in the self-will of man, to take the place which God had in fact given to Neb...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD,.... The Egyptians shall know the Lord to be the true God, and acknowledge him to be omniscient and omnipotent, that should so exactly foretell their destruction...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and [when] all her helpers shall be destroyed. Ver. 8. _And they shall know that I am the Lord._] Men will not take knowledg...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They also that uphold Egypt shall fall_ By this seems to be meant the governors of the several provinces, those who are called _the stay of the tribes thereof, Isaiah 19:13_; that is, of the several...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DESTROYED: _ Heb._ broken...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 thi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY SHALL KNOW; all that act, and all that suffer, in this tragedy, shall by the evidence of the things be enforced to own God's hand, and ascribe justice, and truth, and glory to him. A FIRE; that w...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 30:8 know H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 set H5414 (H8800) fire H784 Egypt H4714 helpers H5826 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Thus says the Lord Yahweh, They also who uphold Egypt will fall, and the pride of her power will come down, from Migdol to Seveneh will they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh. And they wi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Egypt in the day of Jehovah. God against Pharaoh in the war with Babylon. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Nothing can protect a provoking people when God com...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 30:5. _Ethiopia, Libya, and Lydia_ or Ludd. These allies of Egypt fell alike under the Assyrians, justly called “the bloody Assyrians.” The western shores of the Nile were then fertile distric...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 30:1 The third of the seven anti-Egypt oracles is the only undated one. It is comprised of four related prophecies. Each is introduced by THUS SAYS THE LORD (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE DOOM OF EGYPT (Chap. 30) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This chapter contains two distinct messages: Ezekiel 30:1 being an extension, with more life-like detail, of the prophecy announced in chap. Ezekiel 29:1...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter 30: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! (Ezekiel 30:1-2) So he is going around howling, "Wo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 1:10; Amos 1:12; Amos 1:14; Amos 1:4; Amos 1:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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