Ezekiel 30:1-26

§ 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 Jerusalem, and Ezekiel 29:17 belongs to a much later time. In chronological order the series includes (1) the destruction of the crocodile (Ezekiel 29:1), (2) the invasion of Egypt by Nebuchadrezzar (Ezekiel 30:1), (3) the breaking of Pharaoh's arms (Ezekiel 30:20), (4) the fall of the great cedar (Ezekiel 31), (5) two lamentations for Pharaoh and Egypt (c 32), (6) Egypt substituted for Tyre (Ezekiel 29:17).