Ezekiel 30:14-16

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 30:14

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 30:16

Noph - Cairo or Kahira; see Ezekiel 30:13 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 30:1-19

The Lord's day in Egypt. The Lord's day is the day in which God comes nearest to men and manifests himself. Whether he will come as our Friend or as our Foe depends on our state of mind towards him. He has not abandoned the race of men. They are on trial, undergoing discipline. Now and again he comes near, either in his radiant robes of grace or in solemn aspect as an impartial Judge. Even when he approaches nations in the latter character, he gives premonitions of his coming, and this is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 30:14

(For Pathros , see note on Ezekiel 29:14 .) Zoan—joined with Noph in Isaiah 19:11 , mentioned in Numbers 13:22 as older than Hebron—is the Tanis of the Greeks, situated on the Tanitic branch of the Delta of the Nile. No ; or, as in Nahum 3:8 , No Amon (equivalent to "the abode of Ammen"), the sacred name of the Egyptian Thebes. The LXX . gives Diospolis; the Vulgate, by a curious anachronism, Alexandria. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 30:15-16

Sin . The name signifies "mire," like the Greek Pelusium (so the Vulgate), from πήλος . The modern name Pheromi has the same meaning. The remains of an old fortress near the town are still known as Tineh, the "clay" of Daniel 2:41 . The fortress stood on the eastern branch of the Nile, surrounded by swamps, and its position made it, in modern phrase, the "key" of Egypt. Suidas and Strabo ( ut supra ) describe it as an obstacle to invaders from the East. Ezekiel, in describing... read more

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