when the Chaldeans … heard tidings of them, they brake up We do not know whether the retreat on the part of the Egyptians which followed was due to a defeat from the Chaldaeans, or not. The former is at least suggested by Ezekiel 30:21. Pharaoh Hophra (called Apries by Herodotus) reigned b.c. 590 571. For his overthrow see ch. Jeremiah 44:30.

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