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Text -- Ezekiel 29:1-6 (NET)
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A Prophecy Against Egypt
29:1 In the tenth year , in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month , the word of the Lord came to me:
29:2 “Son of man , turn toward Pharaoh king of Egypt , and prophesy against him and against all Egypt .
29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : “‘Look , I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt , the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways , who has said , “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”
29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales . I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways , and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales .
29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness , you and all the fish of your waterways ; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected . I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies .
29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord because they were a reed staff for the house of Israel ;
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Egypt |
Ezekiel |
Dragon |
Pharaoh |
Nebuchadnezzar |
Reed |
Nile |
HOOK |
Egyptians |
Confidence |
Tebeth |
Sea Monster |
Prophecy |
WHALE |
Hooks |
JAW; JAWBONE; JAW TEETH |
Hophra |
Fish-hooks |
Ezekiel, Book of |
BURIAL |
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NET Notes: Eze 29:3 In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.
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