Ezekiel 29:13

Yet thus saith the Lord God, at the end of forty years ,.... Reckoning from its devastation by Nebuchadnezzar to the taking of Babylon by Cyrus:

will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered ; from Babylon, and other places; Cyrus very probably being stirred up by the Lord to proclaim liberty to the Egyptians, as he did to the Jews, to return to their own land; and at the same time restored Amasis to the quiet possession of his kingdom, who must be still alive; since, according to Diodorus Siculus F23 Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 62. Ed. Rhodoman. , he reigned fifty five years; though, according to Herodotus F24 Thalia, sive l. 3. c. 10. , he reigned but forty four years.