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FROM THE TOWER OF SYENE - Or, as in the margin, “Migdol”
(“tower”) was about two miles from Suez. “Syene” was the most
southern town in Egypt, on the borders of Ethiopia, in the Thebaid, on
the easter...
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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...
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EZEKIEL 29-32. ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT. Next and last to be denounced is
Egypt, the great rival of Babylon, and consequently the opponent of
Yahweh's purpose. The separate oracles were written either not...
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FORTY YEARS— After the total defeat of Apries by the Cyreneans, in
which so many Egyptians fell that the whole nation was enraged against
their king, a civil war with Amasis followed, a conquest of Eg...
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
THE ECLIPSE OF EGYPT
29:1-32:32
In the four Chapter s devoted to Egypt Ezekiel speaks seven words from
the Lord. All but one of these words are given specific dating. Why
such a larg...
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II. THE PRIZE OF EGYPT 29:7-21
TRANSLATION
(17) And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first
month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying, (18) Son...
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No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
NO FOOT OF MAN SHALL PASS THROUGH IT ... NEITHER SHALL IT BE
INHABITED FORT...
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THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CROCODILE
Pharaoh is compared to the crocodile of the Nile. God will drag him
forth with hooks, and cast him, with the fish that stick to his
scales, into the wilderness, as a p...
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§ 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...
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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 29
*PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT – EZEKIEL 29:1-16
V1 It w
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NEITHER SHALL IT BE INHABITED FORTY YEARS. — In Ezekiel 29:9 a state
of desolation is predicted for Egypt, which, if understood in the
literal sense of the words, has certainly never been fulfilled. I...
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לֹ֤א תַעֲבָר ־בָּהּ֙ רֶ֣גֶל אָדָ֔ם וְ
רֶ֥גֶל
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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
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Ezekiel then uttered the doom of one. Egypt had been the principal foe
of the people of God, and against her were uttered seven prophecies,
which are placed here in an order of purpose rather than in...
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_Years, till the third of Cyrus, who gave liberty to all the captives
at the beginning of his reign, ver. 13. (Calmet) --- Amasis reigned
forty-four years in Lower Egypt, (Herodotus iii. 10.) over the...
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Here are sad things to be done for the humbling of Egypt, and which
God will certainly accomplish. But what I particularly beg the Reader
to observe, because it is indeed the general cause the Lord as...
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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...
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NO FOOT OF MAN SHALL PASS THROUGH IT,.... This must be understood not
strictly, but with some limitation; it cannot be thought that Egypt
was so depopulated as that there should not be a single passen...
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No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Ver. 11. _No foot of man or beast shall pass through it._] This was
_solitudo...
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_Behold, I am against thee and thy rivers_ Since thou hast opposed me,
I will set myself against thee, and bring down the strength and glory
of thy kingdom, wherein thou magnifiest thyself so much. _F...
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THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH'S POWER AND THE SUBSEQUENT RESTORATION OF
EGYPT...
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No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years, during which
time the power of Egypt would be utterly broken, and there would...
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1-16 Worldly, carnal minds pride themselves in their property,
forgetting that whatever we have, we received it from God, and should
use it for God. Why, then, do we boast? Self is the great idol whi...
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NO FOOT OF MAN; not strictly to be taken, but in an accommodated
sense, or comparatively to what once was, or so little traffic and
passing to and fro, that no footsteps or tracks of men were found. I...
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Ezekiel 29:11 foot H7272 man H120 through H5674 (H8799) foot H7272
beast H929 through H5674 (H8799) uninhabited...
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THE ORACLES AGAINST EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29:1 TO EZEKIEL 32:32).
This section of the book is composed of seven oracles issued against
Egypt. The fact that there are seven is probably deliberate in order
to...
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“Therefore behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I
will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation from Migdol
to Seveneh (Syene) even to the border of Ethiopia. No foot of m...
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THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29:1).
In this oracle Egypt is likened to a monster crocodile which Yahweh
will hunt and dispose of (2-5), because of Pharaoh's pretensions
(Ezekiel 29:3), and...
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CONTENTS: Prophecy against Egypt.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar.
CONCLUSION: Those who abuse their power will justly be stripped of it.
Those who pride themselves in prosperity,...
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Ezekiel 29:2. _Set thy face against Pharaoh._ Against the dragon, the
alligator, for the Nile once had alligators. The figurative language
here is very majestic, and calculated to impress the Egyptian...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 29:1 The seventh and last of the nations
addressed, Egypt (like Tyre) receives seven oracles. If the chief
interest in Tyre was economic, the leading issue for Egypt is militar...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 29:9 A brief BECAUSE section (v. Ezekiel
29:9) repeats the accusation against Egypt from v....
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 29:10 The DESOLATION of Egypt, which lasts
FORTY YEARS, reminds Egypt that God rules their future (see v. E
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THE FIRST OF FOUR Chapter S DIRECTED AGAINST EGYPT (Chap. 29)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“Pharaoh, a monarch with whom the Hebrews were
frequently in contact, is represented as vaunting in the security of
his...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 29:1
IN THE TENTH YEAR, etc. The precision with which the dates of the
several portions of the prophecy against Egypt are given, here and in
Ezekiel 29:17; Ez
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Now as we get into chapter 29:
In the tenth year (Ezekiel 29:1),
That would be the year 587 B.C.
And in the tenth month, the twelfth day of the month (Ezekiel 29:1),
This prophecy came to Ezekiel...
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2 Chronicles 36:21; Daniel 9:2; Ezekiel 30:10; Ezekiel 31:12;...