Ezekiel 30 - Introduction
_THE DESOLATION OF EGYPT, AND HER HELPERS. THE ARM OF BABYLON SHALL BE STRENGTHENED TO BREAK THE ARM OF EGYPT._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE DESOLATION OF EGYPT, AND HER HELPERS. THE ARM OF BABYLON SHALL BE STRENGTHENED TO BREAK THE ARM OF EGYPT._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAY IS NEAR— The _day_ of the Lord implies a day of sacrifice and vengeance upon his enemies. The destruction of Babylon, described in such awful terms, as if all nature suffered by the shock, is represented as _the day of the Lord,_ Isaiah 13:6. So is the destruction of Bozrah and Idumaea, Isai... [ Continue Reading ]
HER MULTITUDE— _Her wealth._ Houbigant: and so Ezekiel 30:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
LYBIA AND LYDIA— Or, _Mauritania and Abyssinia. All the mingled people,_ mean their mercenaries and auxiliaries; _Chub_ means the _Chubians,_ placed by Ptolemy in the Mareotis. "I do not know (says Calmet) whether the name of Egypt may not be derived from _Cub,_ or _Cubti,_ or _Gubti;—Egubti." The m... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE TOWER OF SYENE— Or, _from Migdol to Syene._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT DAY SHALL MESSENGERS GO FORTH, &C.— _In that day shall swift messengers go forth from me, who shall terrify the secure Ethiopian; and he shall have great fears concerning the day of Egypt, because it shall be nigh._ Houbigant; who observes, that as the messengers are sent to Cush or Ethiopia... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL MAKE THE RIVERS DRY, &C.— "I will destroy the strength of Egypt." The metaphor is taken from the decrease or falling of the Nile, upon the overflowings of which all the plenty and prosperity of Egypt depended. See Exodus 19:24 and Isaiah 37:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOPH— Or, _Memphis;_ and so Ezekiel 30:16. _There shall be no more a prince,_ &c. seems to mean that there shall be no more a natural prince of the Egyptian race, but it shall be subject to foreigners. It is probable, that these prophesies respect the time of Cambyses and Darius Ochus. See the note... [ Continue Reading ]
PATHROS—ZOAN— _Delta,_ or _Thebais—Tanis. No_] _Diospolis,_ or _Thebes._ Boch.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN—THE MULTITUDE OF NO— _Pelusium,_ a strong city on the frontiers of Egypt. Bochart and Michaelis. See Nahum 3:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
AVEN—PHIBESETH.— _Heliopolis—Bubastum._... [ Continue Reading ]
TEHAPHNEHES—YOKES— _Daphne—sceptres._... [ Continue Reading ]
TO PUT A ROLLER TO BIND IT— _It shall be bound with a roller, to heal it, and that it may be strengthened to hold the sword._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STRONG, AND THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN— _The strong arm as well as the wounded._ Houbigant. "I will break Pharaoh, by the revolt of his subjects, by the war which Amasis shall bring upon him; and afterwards by that of Nebuchadrezzar; and all this in the space of fourteen or fifteen years." See Calmet... [ Continue Reading ]