Ezekiel 29:1-10
[A.M. 3415. B.C. 589.]
turn <07760> [set.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh.]
This was Pharaoh-hophra, or Apries, who, Herodotus informs us, agreeably to the character given him by the prophet, "proudly and wickedly boasted of having established his kingdom so securely, that it was not in the power of any God to dispossess him of it."
Egypt ......... Egypt <04714> [against all.]
Pharaoh <06547> [I am.]
great <01419> [the great.]
waterways ...... Nile <02975> [My river.]
put <05414> [I will put.]
fish ...................... fish <01710> [the fish.]
leave <05203> [I will leave.]
open field <07704 06440> [open fields. Heb. face of the field. I have.]
know <03045> [know.]
staff <04938> [a staff.]
grasped <08610> [they took.]
broke <07533> [thou didst.]
bring <0935> [I will.]
I will kill <03772> [cut.]
land <0776> [the land.]
said <0559> [because.]
turn <05414> [I will.]
utter ... ruin <02721 02723> [utterly waste. Heb. wastes of waste. from the tower of. from Migdol to.]
Syene <05482> [Syene. Heb. Seveneh.]
Now Essuan, situated at the southern extremity of Egypt, (as Migdol was at the northern,) on the confines of Ethiopia, near the tropic of Cancer, and about lat. 24 degrees N. long 32 degrees E.
