Ezekiel 29:1
THE TENTH YEAR.. THE TENTH _MONTH_] January-February, 587 b.c., about seven months before the fall of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TENTH YEAR.. THE TENTH _MONTH_] January-February, 587 b.c., about seven months before the fall of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 punishment for his deception of Israel (Ezekiel 29:1). Egypt will be desolate for forty years (Ezeki... [ Continue Reading ]
§ 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 were therefore probably written rather than spoken. Ezekiel 32 is dated in the year after the fall of J... [ Continue Reading ]
PHARAOH] The king of Egypt at this time was Pharaoh-hophra (Apries): see Jeremiah 44:30. He reigned from 588-569 b.c.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAGON] the crocodile. HIS RIVERS] the Nile and its branches.... [ Continue Reading ]
FISH] the subjects of Pharaoh. 6, 7. This was the constant character of Egypt in its relations with Israel. It incited Israel by promises of help to rebel against Assyria or Babylon, and failed in the hour of need: see 2 Kings 18:21; Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 31:8; Jeremiah 37:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE TOWER OF SYENE] RM 'from Migdol to Syene,' and so in Jeremiah 30:6. The places named represent the N. and S. extremities of the country. Migdol was a town in Lower Egypt. Syene is the modern Assouan, in Upper Egypt. 11, 12. FORTY YEARS] a round number, standing for a full generation, as in... [ Continue Reading ]
PATHROS] Upper Egypt. For Ezekiel 29:17 see the end of the Section, after Ezekiel 32.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH YEAR, THE FIRST _month_] March-April, 570 b.c.... [ Continue Reading ]
EGYPT AS NEBUCHADREZZAR'S WAGES FOR THE SIEGE OF TYRE This is the latest of Ezekiel's dated prophecies, and was uttered nearly sixteen years after the destruction of Jerusalem. Nebuchadrezzar's siege of Tyre was now over, and had not ended so successfully as Ezekiel prophesied in Ezekiel 26-28. Eze... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WROUGHT FOR ME] Nebuchadrezzar and his army were God's instruments.... [ Continue Reading ]
The humiliation of Egypt would open the way for Israel's restoration, and the prophet would no longer be silenced by the incredulity of his people.... [ Continue Reading ]