Ezekiel 29:1-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 29:1-7

Here is, I. The date of this prophecy against Egypt. It was in the tenth year of the captivity, and yet it is placed after the prophecy against Tyre, which was delivered in the eleventh year, because, in the accomplishment of the prophecies, the destruction of Tyre happened before the destruction of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar's gaining Egypt was the reward of his service against Tyre; and therefore the prophecy against Tyre is put first, that we may the better observe that. But particular... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 29:8-16

This explains the foregoing prediction, which was figurative, and looks something further. Here is a prophecy, I. Of the ruin of Egypt. The threatening of this is very full and particular; and the sin for which this ruin shall be brought upon them is their pride, Ezek. 29:9. They said, The river is mine and I have made it; therefore their land shall spue them out. 1. God is against them, both against the king and against the people, against thee and against thy rivers. Waters signify people... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 29:17-21

The date of this prophecy is observable; it was in the twenty-seventh year of Ezekiel's captivity, sixteen years after the prophecy in the former part of the chapter, and almost as long after those which follow in the next chapters; but it comes in here for the explication of all that was said against Egypt. After the destruction of Jerusalem Nebuchadnezzar spent two or three campaigns in the conquest of the Ammonites and Moabites and making himself master of their countries. Then he spent... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 29:1

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month ,.... In the tenth year Jeconiah's captivity, and Zedekiah's reign. The Septuagint version has it, the twelfth year; and the Arabic version, the twelfth month; and the Septuagint version again, the first day of the month; and the Vulgate Latin, the eleventh day of it. This month was the month Tebet, and answers to part of December, and part of January. This prophecy was delivered before that concerning Tyre, though placed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 29:2

Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt ,.... Pharaoh was a name common to all the kings of Egypt; the name of this king was Pharaohhophra, Jeremiah 44:30 , and who, by Herodotus F24 Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 161. , is called Apries: and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt ; prophesy of his destruction, and of the destruction of the whole land that is under his dominion. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 29:3

Speak, and say, thus saith the Lord God ,.... The one only, living, and true God, the almighty, eternal, and unchangeable Jehovah, which the gods of Egypt were not: behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt ; who, though so great a king, was not a match for God, yea, nothing in his hands; nor could he stand before him, or contend with him; or, I am above thee F25 עליך "super te", Montanus. ; though the king of Egypt was so high above others, and thought so highly of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 29:4

But I will put hooks in thy jaws ,.... The allusion is to fishhooks, which are taken by fishes with the bait into their mouths, and stick in their jaws, by which they are drawn out of the river, and taken. The king of Egypt being before compared to a fish, these hooks design some powerful princes and armies, which should be the ruin of Pharaoh; one of them, according to Junius and Grotius, was Amasis, at the head of the Cyreneans and Greeks; and another was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 29:5

And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee, and all the fish of thy rivers ,.... Where fish in common cannot live, but die as soon almost as out of the water, and on dry land, excepting those that are of the amphibious kind. This wilderness designs the deserts of Lybia and Cyrene, where the battle was fought between Hophra and Amasis; and where the Egyptian army perished, only their king, before compared to a crocodile, which lives on land, as well as in water, escaped. The... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 29:6

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord ,.... Who could eject their king from his kingdom, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy; though he thought no God could, as he boastingly said, before observed: because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel ; alluding to the country of Egypt, which abounded with reeds that grew upon the banks of the river Nile, and other rivers. This signifies that either the Egyptians were weak, and could not help the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 29:7

When they took hold of thee by thy hand ,.... When the Israelites entered into an alliance and confederacy with the Egyptians, called for their assistance according to treaty, and put their confidence in them: thou didst break and rend all their shoulder ; as a reed which a man puts under his armhole, and leans upon, and it breaks under him, the splinters run into the flesh up to the very shoulder, and tear the flesh to pieces; so, through Zedekiah's trusting to the king of Egypt, he... read more

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