Ezekiel 29:16 - Exposition

It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel. Throughout the history of the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, as in the ease of Hoshea ( 2 Kings 17:4 ), Hezekiah ( Isaiah 30:2 , Isaiah 30:3 ; Isaiah 36:4 , Isaiah 36:6 ), and Jehoiakim ( 2 Kings 23:35 ), their temptation had been to place its "confidence" in the "chariots and horses" of Egypt as an ally. That temptation should not recur again. Egypt should not in that way bring the iniquity of Israel to the remembrance of the Judge , acting, as it were, as a Satan, first tempting and then accusing. There should be no more looking after Egypt instead of Jehovah, as their succor and defense.