(KJV) Ezekiel 291

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⥃A Prophecy against Pharaoh

[1] In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,2 [2] Son of man, set3 thy face against Pharaoh4 king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all5 Egypt: [3] Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I [am6] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great7 dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river8 [is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself. [4] But I will put9 hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish10 of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. [5] And I will leave11 thee [thrown] into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields12; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have13 given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. [6] And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know14 that I [am] the Lord, because they have been a staff15 of reed to the house of Israel. [7] When they took16 hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst17 break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

⥃The Desolation of Egypt

[8] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will18 bring a sword upon thee, and cut19 off man and beast out of thee. [9] And the land20 of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I [am] the Lord: because21 he hath said, The river [is] mine, and I have made [it]. [10] Behold, therefore I [am] against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will22 make the land of Egypt utterly waste23 [and] desolate, from the tower of24 Syene25 even unto the border of Ethiopia. [11] No foot of man26 shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty27 years. [12] And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in28 the midst of the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities among the cities [that are] laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter29 the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

[13] [¶]Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the30 end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: [14] And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return [into] the land of Pathros31, into the land of their habitation32; and they shall be there a base33 kingdom. [15] It shall be the basest34 of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule35 over the nations. [16] And it shall be no more the confidence36 of the house of Israel, which bringeth37 [their] iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but38 they shall know that I [am] the Lord God.

⥃Egypt the Reward of Nebuchadnezzar

[17] And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,39 [18] Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar40 king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great41 service against Tyrus: every head [was] made bald, and every shoulder [was] peeled: yet42 had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: [19] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will43 give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey44; and it shall be the wages for his army. [20] I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labour45 wherewith he served46 against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.

[21] [¶]In that day will I cause47 the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening48 of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know49 that I [am] the Lord.

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  1. Ezek 29:1, The judgment of Pharoh for his treachery to Israel; Ezek 29:8, The desolation of Egypt; Ezek 29:13, The restoration thereof after 40 years; Ezek 29:17, Egypt the reward of Nebuchadnezzar; Ezek 29:21, Israel shall be restored. ↩

  2. am 3415, bc 589, Ezek 29:17, Ezek 1:2, Ezek 8:1, Ezek 20:1, Ezek 26:1, Ezek 40:1 ↩

  3. Ezek 6:2, Ezek 20:46, Ezek 21:2, Ezek 25:2, Ezek 28:21-22 ↩

  4. This was Pharaoh–hophra, or Apries, who, Herodotus informs us, agreeably to the character given him by the prophet, "proudly and wickedly boasted of having established his kingdom so securely, that it was not in the power of any God to dispossess him of it." Jer 44:30 ↩

  5. Ezek. 30:1-32:32; Isa. 18:1-19:17, Isa 20:1-6; Jer 9:25-26, Jer 25:18-19; Jer 43:8-13, Jer 46:2-16; Joel 3:19; Zech 14:18-19 ↩

  6. Ezek 29:10, Ezek 28:22; Ps 76:7; Jer 44:30; Nah 1:6 ↩

  7. Ezek 32:2; Ps 74:13-14; Isa 27:1, Isa 51:9; Rev 12:3-4, Rev 12:16-17, Rev 13:2, Rev 13:4, Rev 13:11; Rev 16:13, Rev 20:2 ↩

  8. Ezek 29:9, Ezek 28:2; Deut 8:17; Isa 10:13-14; Dan 4:30-31 ↩

  9. Ezek 38:4; 2Kgs 19:28; Job 41:1-2; Isa 37:29; Amos 4:2 ↩

  10. Hab 1:14-15 ↩

  11. Ezek 31:18, Ezek 32:4-6, Ezek 39:4-6, Ezek 39:11-20; Ps 110:5-6; Jer 8:2, Jer 16:4, Jer 25:33 ↩

  12. Heb. face of the field ↩

  13. 1Sam 17:44; Ps 74:14; Jer 7:33, Jer 34:20; Rev 19:17-18 ↩

  14. Ezek 28:22-24, Ezek 28:26; Exod 9:14, Exod 14:18 ↩

  15. 2Kgs 18:21; Isa 20:5-6, Isa 30:2-7, Isa 31:1-3, Isa 36:6; Jer 2:36; Lam 4:17 ↩

  16. Ezek 17:15-17; Jer 37:5-11 ↩

  17. Ps 118:8-9, Ps 146:3-4; Prov 25:19; Jer 17:5-6 ↩

  18. Ezek 29:19-20, Ezek 14:17, Ezek 30:4, Ezek 30:10; Jer 46:13-26 ↩

  19. Ezek 25:13, Ezek 32:10-13; Gen 6:7; Exod 12:12; Jer 7:20, Jer 32:43 ↩

  20. Ezek 29:10-12, Ezek 30:7, Ezek 30:13-17; Jer 43:10-13 ↩

  21. Ezek 29:3; Prov 16:18, Prov 18:12, Prov 29:23 ↩

  22. Ezek 29:11, Ezek 30:12; Hab 3:8 ↩

  23. Heb. wastes of waste ↩

  24. from Migdol to. Ezek 30:6-9; Exod 14:2; Jer 44:1, Jer 46:14 ↩

  25. Heb. Seveneh, Now Essuan, situated at the southern extremity of Egypt (as Migdol was at the northern), on the confines of Ethiopia, near the tropic of Cancer, and about lat. 24 degrees n long 32 degrees e. ↩

  26. Ezek 30:10-13, Ezek 31:12, Ezek 32:13, Ezek 33:28, Ezek 36:28; Jer 43:11-12 ↩

  27. 2Chr 36:21; Isa 23:15, Isa 23:17; Jer 25:11-12, Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2 ↩

  28. Ezek 30:7; Jer 25:15-19, Jer 27:6-11 ↩

  29. We learn from Berosus that Nebuchadnezzar sent several captive Egyptians to Babylon; and from Megasthenes, that he transplanted others to Pontus; and it is probable, that at the dissolution of the Babylonian empire, about forty years after, Cyrus permitted them to return to their native country. Ezek 30:23; Jer 46:19 ↩

  30. Isa 19:22; Jer 46:26 ↩

  31. Ezek 30:14; Gen 10:14; 1Chr 1:12, Pathrusim, Isa 11:11; Jer 44:1 ↩

  32. or, birth ↩

  33. Heb. low ↩

  34. Ezek 17:6, Ezek 17:14, Ezek 30:13; Zech 10:11 ↩

  35. Ezek 31:2, Ezek 32:2; Dan 11:42-43; Nah 3:8-9 ↩

  36. Ezek 29:6-7, Ezek 17:15-17; Isa 20:5, Isa 30:1-6, Isa 31:1-3, Isa 36:4-6; Jer 2:18-19, Jer 2:36-37; Jer 37:5-7; Lam 4:17; Hos 5:13, Hos 7:11, Hos 12:1, Hos 14:3 ↩

  37. Ezek 21:23; Num 5:15; 1Kgs 17:18; Ps 25:7, Ps 79:8; Isa 64:9; Jer 14:10; Hos 8:13, Hos 9:9; Heb 10:3, Heb 10:17; Rev 16:19 ↩

  38. Ezek 29:6, Ezek 29:9, Ezek 29:21, Ezek 28:22-24, Ezek 28:26 ↩

  39. am 3432, bc 572, Ezek 29:1, Ezek 1:2 ↩

  40. Ezek 26:7-12; Jer 25:9, Jer 27:6 ↩

  41. Nebuchadnezzar was thirteen years employed in the siege. During this long siege, the soldiers must have endured great hardships; their heads would become bald by constantly wearing their helmets; and their shoulders be peeled by carrying materials to and from the works. ↩

  42. St. Jerome asserts, on the authority of the Assyrian histories, that when the Tyrians saw their city must fall, they put their most valuable effects on board their ships, and fled with them to the islands, and their colonies, "so that, the city being taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of his labour." ↩

  43. Ezek 29:8-10, Ezek 30:10-12; Jer 43:10-13 ↩

  44. Heb. spoil her spoil, and prey her prey ↩

  45. or, hire ↩

  46. 2Kgs 10:30; Isa 10:6-7, Isa 45:1-3; Jer 25:9 ↩

  47. Ezek 28:25-26; 1Sam 2:10; Ps 92:10, Ps 112:9, Ps 132:17, Ps 148:14; Isa 27:6; Jer 23:5; Luke 1:69 ↩

  48. Ezek 3:26, Ezek 24:27, Ezek 33:22; Ps 51:15; Amos 3:7-8; Luke 21:15; Col 4:3-4 ↩

  49. Ezek 29:6, Ezek 29:9, Ezek 29:16 ↩