Ezekiel 30:13-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 30:1-19

The prophecy of the destruction of Egypt is here very full and particular, as well as, in the general, very frightful. What can protect a provoking people when the righteous God comes forth to contend with them? I. It shall be a very lamentable destruction, and such as shall occasion great sorrow (Ezek. 30:2, 3): ?Howl you; you may justly shriek now that it is coming, for you will be made to shriek and make hideous outcries when it comes. Cry out, Woe worth the day! or, Ah the day! alas... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 30:13

Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols ,.... With which Egypt abounded, making an idol of all sorts of creatures, rational and irrational, animate and inanimate, and in which they trusted; wherefore these being destroyed, they had nothing to put their confidence in: I will cause their images to cease out of Noph ; called Moph, Hosea 9:6 and which we there rightly render Memphis, as many versions do here, and was very famous for idolatry: here stood the temple of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 30:14

And I will make Pathros desolate ,.... A country in Egypt; See Gill on Ezekiel 29:14 , perhaps it was the first place that Nebuchadnezzar entered, and so went from place to place in the order hereafter mentioned: and I will set fire in Zoan ; or Tunis, a famous city in Egypt in the times of Moses, Numbers 13:22 . The Targum and Septuagint version call it Tanis here; and from hence a nome in Egypt was called the Tanitic nome. This city was burnt down by the king of Babylon: the place... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 30:15

And I will pour out my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt ,.... Either the city Sais, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; or rather Pelusium, as the Vulgate Latin version, so called from "pelos" which signifies "clay" in the Greek language; and the same "Sin" signifies in the Chaldee, Psalm 18:43 , and as now called Tineh, from טין , "clay": it had a very fine haven, and may be called the strength of Egypt, it lying at the entrance of it; and having a strong fortified tower, it was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 30:16

And I will set fire in Egypt ,.... Kindle a war there, which shall consume it; see Ezekiel 30:8 , Sin shall have great pain ; as a woman in travail, seeing its destruction is just at hand; the same with Pelusium, as before: and No shall be rent asunder , the walls of it shall be broken down by the enemy, or a breach shall be made in it, like the breach of waters which were about it; see Nahum 3:8 , and Noph shall have distresses daily : that is, Memphis, as before; enemies... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 30:17

The young men of Aven and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sword ,.... Aven is the same with On, of which Potipherah was priest in Joseph's time and whose daughter he married, Genesis 41:45 , the same with Heliopolis, or Bethshemesh, the city of the sun, see Jeremiah 43:13 ; see Gill on Jeremiah 43:13 ; where was the temple of the sun, and where it was worshipped; and so it is rendered by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions. It is called here "Aven", or "vanity", because... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 30:18

At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened ,.... The same with Hanes in Isaiah 30:4 and Tahapanes in Jeremiah 2:16 and Tahpanhes, Jeremiah 43:7 , it was a royal seat of the kings of Egypt: there was in Solomon's time a queen of Egypt of this name, and perhaps it might be so called from her, 1 Kings 11:19 . It is generally thought to be the Daphne of Pelusium, it being near that city; though Junius takes it to be a place in another part of Egypt, at a great distance, which... read more

Adam Clarke

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

Adam Clarke

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

Adam Clarke

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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