Ezekiel 29:10

10. From the tower of Syene Rather, as margin of A.V., “from Migdol to Syene” ( Sunnu). Migdol (Ezekiel 30:6; Exodus 45:2; Numbers 33:7; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 46:14) was near to the ancient Pelusium ( Tel Farama), and was the great frontier city and recognized north boundary of Egypt in the time of Ezekiel and Herodotus. This fort (Magdolon) guarded the point where the great Syrian highways crossed the canal of Sesostris the shortest route to Syria. (See F. Ll. Griffith, Qantarah, pp. 100-103.) Syene (Assouan) was the southernmost town of Upper Egypt, lying on the border of Nubia. The expression took in all Egypt, just as “from Dan to Beer-sheba” meant all Palestine. (See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux en Philippians et Arch., 1892.)