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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Ezekiel 30"
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PROPHECIES AGAINST EGYPT. Two distinct messages: (1) At  :-, a repetition of  :-, with fuller details of lifelike dis"
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CHAPTER 30

. CONTINUATION OF THE
PROPHECIES AGAINST EGYPT.
Two distinct messages: (1) At , a repetition of , with fuller details of lifelike distinctness. The date
is probably not long after that mentioned in , on the eve of Nebuchadnezzar's march against Egypt after
subjugating Tyre. (2) A vision relating directly to Pharaoh and the
overthrow of his kingdom; communicated at an earlier date, the
seventh of the first month of the eleventh year. Not a year after the
date in [Ezekiel 29:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/29/1), and three
months before the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.

**2. Woe worth the day!**—that is,
Alas for the day!

**3. the time of the heathen**—namely,
for taking vengeance on them. The judgment on Egypt is the beginning
of a world-wide judgment on all the heathen enemies of God ([Joel 1:15](../../../kjv/joel/1/15);
[Joel 2:1](../../../kjv/joel/2/1); [Joel 2:2](../../../kjv/joel/2/2);
[Joel 2:3](../../../kjv/joel/2/3); [Obadiah 1:15](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/15)).

**4. pain**—literally, "pangs
with trembling as of a woman in childbirth."

**5. the mingled people**—the
mercenary troops of Egypt from various lands, mostly from the
interior of Africa (compare [Ezekiel 27:10](../../../kjv/ezekiel/27/10);
[Jeremiah 25:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/25/20); [Jeremiah 25:24](../../../kjv/jeremiah/25/24);
[Jeremiah 46:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/9); [Jeremiah 46:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/21)).
**Chub**—the people named
*Kufa* on the monuments [HAVERNICK],
a people considerably north of Palestine [WILKINSON];
*Coba* or *Chobat,* a city of Mauritania [MAURER].
**men of the land that is in
league**—too definite an expression to mean merely, "men in
league" with Egypt; rather, "*sons* of the land *of
the covenant,*" that is, the *Jews* who migrated to
Egypt and carried Jeremiah with them ([Jeremiah 46:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/21)). Even they shall not escape ([Jeremiah 42:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/42/22);
[Jeremiah 44:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/44/14)).

**6. from the tower of Syene**—(see
on [Ezekiel 30:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/30/2)).

**7. in the midst of . . . countries .
. . desolate**—Egypt shall fare no better than they ().

**9. messengers . . . in ships to . .
. Ethiopians**— ([Isaiah 18:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/18/1);
[Isaiah 18:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/18/2)). The cataracts
interposing between them and Egypt should not save them. Egyptians
"fleeing from before Me" in My execution of judgment, as
"messengers" in "skiffs" ("vessels of
bulrushes," [Isaiah 18:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/18/2))
shall go up the Nile as far as navigable, to announce the advance of
the Chaldeans.
**as in the day of Egypt**—The
day of Ethiopia's "pain" shall come shortly, as Egypt's day
came.

**10. the multitude**—the large
population.

**12. rivers**—the artificial
canals made from the Nile for irrigation. The drying up of these
would cause scarcity of grain, and so prepare the way for the
invaders ([Isaiah 19:5-10](../../../kjv/isaiah/19/5-10)).

**13. Noph**—Memphis, the capital
of Middle Egypt, and the stronghold of "idols." Though no
record exists of Nebuchadnezzar's "destroying" these, we
know from HERODOTUS and
others, that Cambyses took Pelusium, the key of Egypt, by placing
before his army dogs, cats, c., all held sacred in Egypt, so that no
Egyptian would use any weapon against them. He slew Apis, the sacred
ox, and burnt other idols of Egypt.
**no more a prince**—referring
to the anarchy that prevailed in the civil wars between Apries and
Amasis at the time of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion. There shall no more
be a prince of the land of Egypt, ruling the whole country or, no
*independent* prince.

**14. Pathros**—Upper Egypt, with
"No" or Thebes its capital (famed for its stupendous
buildings, of which grand ruins remain), in antithesis to Zoan or
Tanis, a chief city in Lower Egypt, within the Delta.

**15. Sin**—that is, Pelusium, the
frontier fortress on the northeast, therefore called "the
strength (that is, the key) of Egypt." It stands in antithesis
to No or Thebes at the opposite end of Egypt; that is, I will afflict
Egypt from one end to the other.

**16. distresses daily**—MAURER
translates, "enemies during the day," that is, open enemies
who do not wait for the covert of night to make their attacks
(compare [Jeremiah 6:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/4); [Jeremiah 15:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/15/8)).
However, the *Hebrew,* though rarely, is sometimes rendered (see
[Psalms 13:2](../../../kjv/psalms/13/2)) as in *English
Version.*

**17. Aven**—meaning "vanity"
or "iniquity": applied, by a slight change of the *Hebrew*
name, to On or Heliopolis, in allusion to its idolatry. Here stood
the temple of the sun, whence it was called in *Hebrew,
Beth-shemesh* ([Jeremiah 43:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/13)).
The Egyptian hieroglyphics call it, *Re Athom,* the sun, the
father of the gods, being impersonate in *Athom* or *Adam,*
the father of mankind.
**Pi-beseth**—that is,
Bubastis, in Lower Egypt, near the Pelusiac branch of the Nile:
notorious for the worship of the goddess of the same name (*Coptic,
Pasht*), the granite stones of whose temple still attest its
former magnificence.
**these*****cities*******—rather, as the *Septuagint,* "the women,"
namely, of Aven and Pi-beseth, in antithesis to "the young men."
So in [Ezekiel 30:18](../../../kjv/ezekiel/30/18), "*daughters*
shall go into captivity" [MAURER].

**18. Tehaphnehes**—called from
the queen of Egypt mentioned in . The same as Daphne, near Pelusium, a royal residence of
the Pharaohs ([Jeremiah 43:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/7); [Jeremiah 43:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/9)).
Called Hanes ([Isaiah 30:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/30/4)).
**break . . . the yokes of
Egypt**—that is, the tyrannical supremacy which she exercised
over other nations. Compare "bands of their yoke" ([Isaiah 30:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/30/4)).
**a cloud**—namely, of
calamity.

**20.** Here begins the earlier
vision, not long after that in the twenty-ninth chapter, about three
months before the taking of Jerusalem, as to Pharaoh and his kingdom.

**21. broken . . . arm of Pharaoh**—
([Psalms 37:17](../../../kjv/psalms/37/17); [Jeremiah 48:25](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/25)).
Referring to the defeat which Pharaoh-hophra sustained from the
Chaldeans, when trying to raise the siege of Jerusalem ([Jeremiah 37:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37/5);
[Jeremiah 37:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37/7)); and previous to the
deprivation of Pharaoh-necho of all his conquests from the river of
Egypt to the Euphrates ([2 Kings 24:7](../../../kjv/2-kings/24/7);
[Jeremiah 46:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/2)); also to the Egyptian
disaster in Cyrene.

**22. arms**—Not only the "one
arm" broken already () was not to be healed, but the other two should be broken.
Not a corporal wound, but a *breaking of the power* of Pharaoh
is intended.
**cause . . . sword to fall out
of . . . hand**—deprive him of the resources of making war.

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