Ezekiel 29:12 - Exposition

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations . As before, records are silent as to any such dispersion. All that we can say is that such a deportation was uniformly the sequel of the conquests of an Oriental king, as in the ease of the captivities of Samaria ( 2 Kings 17:6 ) and Jerusalem, and of the nations that were settled in Samaria ( 2 Kings 17:6 ), and of the Persians by Darius; that if we find reason to believe that Egypt was invaded by Nebuchadnezzar after the destruction of Jerusalem, we may assume, with little risk of doubt, that it was followed by what Ezekiel describes.