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<p id="Chapter30" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 30
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<p id="Eze30_1"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',30,'1-26');">Eze 30:1-26</a>. CONTINUATION OF THE PROPHECIES AGAINST EGYPT.
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<p>Two distinct messages: (1) At <a onclick="return mV('Eze',30,'1-9');">Eze 30:1-9</a>, a repetition of <a onclick="return mV('Eze',29,'1-16');">Eze 29:1-16</a>, with fuller details of lifelike distinctness. The date is probably not long after that mentioned in <a onclick="return mV('Eze',29,17);">Eze 29:17</a>, 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 <a onclick="return mV('Eze',29,1);">Eze 29:1</a>, and three months before the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.
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<p id="Eze30_2"><b>2. Woe worth the day!</b>—that is, Alas for the day!
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<p id="Eze30_3"><b>3. the time of the heathen</b>—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 (<a onclick="return mV('Joe',1,15);">Joe 1:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Joe',2,1,2);">2:1-2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Joe',3,'1-21');">3:1-21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Oba',1,15);">Oba 1:15</a>).
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<p id="Eze30_4"><b>4. pain</b>—literally, "pangs with trembling as of a woman in childbirth."
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<p id="Eze30_5"><b>5. the mingled people</b>—the mercenary troops of Egypt from various lands, mostly from the interior of Africa (compare <a onclick="return mV('Eze',27,10);">Eze 27:10</a> <a onclick="return mV('Jer',25,20, 24);">Jer 25:20, 24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',46,9,21, 24);">46:9, 21</a>).
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<br><br><b>Chub</b>—the people named <i>Kufa</i> on the monuments [HAVERNICK], a people considerably north of Palestine [WILKINSON]; <i>Coba</i> or <i>Chobat,</i> a city of Mauritania [MAURER].
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<br><br><b>men of the land that is in league</b>—too definite an expression to mean merely, "men in league" with Egypt; rather, "<i>sons</i> of the land <i>of the covenant,</i>" that is, the <i>Jews</i> who migrated to Egypt and carried Jeremiah with them (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,'1-');">Jer 42:1 - 44:30</a>). Even they shall not escape (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,22);">Jer 42:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',44,14);">44:14</a>).
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<p id="Eze30_6"><b>6. from the tower of Syene</b>— (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze029.html#Eze29_10">Eze 29:10</a>).
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<p id="Eze30_7"><b>7. in the midst of...countries...desolate</b>—Egypt shall fare no better than they (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',29,10);">Eze 29:10</a>).
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<p id="Eze30_9"><b>9. messengers...in ships to...Ethiopians</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',18,1,2);">Isa 18:1-2</a>). 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," <a onclick="return mV('Isa',18,2);">Isa 18:2</a>) shall go up the Nile as far as navigable, to announce the advance of the Chaldeans.
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<br><br><b>as in the day of Egypt</b>—The day of Ethiopia's "pain" shall come shortly, as Egypt's day came.
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<p id="Eze30_10"><b>10. the multitude</b>—the large population.
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<p id="Eze30_12"><b>12. rivers</b>—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 (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',19,'5-10');">Isa 19:5-10</a>).
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<p id="Eze30_13"><b>13. Noph</b>—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, etc., 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.
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<br><br><b>no more a prince</b>—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 <i>independent</i> prince.
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<p id="Eze30_14"><b>14. Pathros</b>—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.
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<p id="Eze30_15"><b>15. Sin</b>—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.
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<p id="Eze30_16"><b>16. distresses daily</b>—MAURER translates, "enemies during the day," that is, open enemies who do not wait for the covert of night to make their attacks (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,4);">Jer 6:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',15,8);">15:8</a>;). However, the <i>Hebrew,</i> though rarely, is sometimes rendered (see <a onclick="return mV('Psa',13,2);">Psa 13:2</a>) as in <i>English Version.</i>
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<p id="Eze30_17"><b>17. Aven</b>—meaning "vanity" or "iniquity": applied, by a slight change of the <i>Hebrew</i> name, to On or Heliopolis, in allusion to its idolatry. Here stood the temple of the sun, whence it was called in <i>Hebrew, Beth-shemesh</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',43,13);">Jer 43:13</a>). The Egyptian hieroglyphics call it, <i>Re Athom,</i> the sun, the father of the gods, being impersonate in <i>Athom</i> or <i>Adam,</i> the father of mankind.
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<br><br><b>Pi-beseth</b>—that is, Bubastis, in Lower Egypt, near the Pelusiac branch of the Nile: notorious for the worship of the goddess of the same name (<i>Coptic, Pasht</i>), the granite stones of whose temple still attest its former magnificence.
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<br><br><b>these <i>cities</i></b>—rather, as the <i>Septuagint,</i> "the women," namely, of Aven and Pi-beseth, in antithesis to "the young men." So in <a onclick="return mV('Eze',30,18);">Eze 30:18</a>, "<i>daughters</i> shall go into captivity" [MAURER].
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<p id="Eze30_18"><b>18. Tehaphnehes</b>—called from the queen of Egypt mentioned in <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',11,19);">1Ki 11:19</a>. The same as Daphne, near Pelusium, a royal residence of the Pharaohs (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',43,7,9);">Jer 43:7, 9</a>). Called Hanes <a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,4);">Isa 30:4</a>).
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<br><br><b>break...the yokes of Egypt</b>—that is, the tyrannical supremacy which she exercised over other nations. Compare "bands of their yoke" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',34,7);">Eze 34:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>a cloud</b>—namely, of calamity.
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<p id="Eze30_20"><b>20.</b> 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.
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<p id="Eze30_21"><b>21. broken...arm of Pharaoh</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,17);">Psa 37:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',48,25);">Jer 48:25</a>). Referring to the defeat which Pharaoh-hophra sustained from the Chaldeans, when trying to raise the siege of Jerusalem (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',37,5, 7);">Jer 37:5, 7</a>); and previous to the deprivation of Pharaoh-necho of all his conquests from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',24,7);">2Ki 24:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',46,2);">Jer 46:2</a>); also to the Egyptian disaster in Cyrene.
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<p id="Eze30_22"><b>22. arms</b>—Not only the "one arm" broken already (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',30,21);">Eze 30:21</a>) was not to be healed, but the other two should be broken. Not a corporal wound, but a <i>breaking of the power</i> of Pharaoh is intended.
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<br><br><b>cause...sword to fall out of...hand</b>—deprive him of the resources of making war.
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