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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:5

Lydia - This place is not well known. The Ludim were contiguous to Egypt, Genesis 11:13 . Chub - The Cubians, placed by Ptolemy in the Mareotis. But probably instead of וכוב vechub , "and Chub," we should read וכל vechol , "and All the men of the land," etc. The Septuagint adds "the Persians and the Cretans." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:7

Shall be desolate - All these countries shall be desolated, and the places named shall be chief in these desolations. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:9

Messengers go forth from me in ships - Ships can ascend the Nile up to Syene or Essuan, by the cataracts; and when Nebuchadnezzar's vessels went up, they struck terror into the Ethiopians. They are represented here as the "messengers of God." read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:12

I will make the rivers dry - As the overflowing of the Nile was the grand cause of fertility to Egypt, the drying it up, or preventing that annual inundation, must be the cause of dearth, famine, etc. By rivers, we may understand the various canals cut from the Nile to carry water into the different parts of the land. When the Nile did not rise to its usual height these canals were quite dry. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:13

Their images to cease out of Noph - Afterwards Memphis, and now Cairo or Kahira. This was the seat of Egyptian idolatry; the place where Apis was particularly worshipped. No more a prince of the land of Egypt - Not one, from that time to the present day. See the note on Ezekiel 29:14 . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros desolate - See Ezekiel 29:14 . Zoan - Tanis, the ancient capital of Egypt. No - Diospolis, or Thebes, the city of Jupiter. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:15

My fury upon Sin - Pelusium, a strong city of Egypt, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:17

Aven - Or On, the famous Heliopolis, or city of the sun. Pibeseth - Bubastum or Bubaste, by a slight alteration of the letters. It is situated on the eastern branch of the Nile, towards Arabia. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:18

Tehaphnehes - Called also Tahapanes, Jeremiah 2:16 . This is the Pelusian Daphne. Break there the yokes - The sceptres. Nebuchadnezzar broke the scepter of Egypt when he confirmed the kingdom to Amasis, who had rebelled against Apries. read more

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