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Ezekiel 29:1
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In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
It was the tenth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month. The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
In the tenth year [of the captivity of King Jehoiachin by the king of Babylon], in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
In the tenth yeere, and in the tenth moneth in the twelfth day of the moneth, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ten years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the Lord spoke to me on the twelfth day of the tenth month. He said:
On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year, the word of Adonai came to me:
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], on the twelfth of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
IN the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of our exile, the Lord spoke to me.
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month , in the twelfth of the month, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
In the x. yeare, vpon the xij. daye off the x. Moneth, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayege:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
In the tenth yeere, in the tenth moneth, in the twelft day of the moneth, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
In the tenth yere, vpon the twelft day of the tenth moneth, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In the tenthe yeer, in the tweluethe monethe, in the firste dai of the monethe, the word of the Lord was maad to me, and he seide,
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
On January 7, during the tenth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, this message came to me from the Lord :
On the twelfth day of the tenth month in the tenth year, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day, God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, confront Pharaoh king of Egypt. Preach against him and all the Egyptians. Tell him, ‘ God , the Master, says: "‘Watch yourself, Pharaoh, king of Egypt. I'm dead set against you, You lumbering old dragon, lolling and flaccid in the Nile, Saying, "It's my Nile. I made it. It's mine." I'll set hooks in your jaw; I'll make the fish of the Nile stick to your scales. I'll pull you out of the Nile, with all the fish stuck to your scales. Then I'll drag you out into the desert, you and all the Nile fish sticking to your scales. You'll lie there in the open, rotting in the sun, meat to the wild animals and carrion birds. Everybody living in Egypt will realize that I am God . "‘Because you've been a flimsy reed crutch to Israel so that when they gripped you, you splintered and cut their hand, and when they leaned on you, you broke and sent them sprawling—Message of God , the Master—I'll bring war against you, do away with people and animals alike, and turn the country into an empty desert so they'll realize that I am God . "‘Because you said, "It's my Nile. I made it. It's all mine," therefore I am against you and your rivers. I'll reduce Egypt to an empty, desolate wasteland all the way from Migdol in the north to Syene and the border of Ethiopia in the south. Not a human will be seen in it, nor will an animal move through it. It'll be just empty desert, empty for forty years. "‘I'll make Egypt the most desolate of all desolations. For forty years I'll make her cities the most wasted of all wasted cities. I'll scatter Egyptians to the four winds, send them off every which way into exile. "‘But,' says God , the Master, ‘that's not the end of it. After the forty years, I'll gather up the Egyptians from all the places where they've been scattered. I'll put things back together again for Egypt. I'll bring her back to Pathros where she got her start long ago. There she'll start over again from scratch. She'll take her place at the bottom of the ladder and there she'll stay, never to climb that ladder again, never to be a world power again. Never again will Israel be tempted to rely on Egypt. All she'll be to Israel is a reminder of old sin. Then Egypt will realize that I am God , the Master.'" In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has worn out his army against Tyre. They've worked their fingers to the bone and have nothing to show for it. "Therefore, God , the Master, says, ‘I'm giving Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He'll haul away its wealth, pick the place clean. He'll pay his army with Egyptian plunder. He's been working for me all these years without pay. This is his pay: Egypt. Decree of God , the Master. "‘And then I'll stir up fresh hope in Israel—the dawn of deliverance!—and I'll give you, Ezekiel, bold and confident words to speak. And they'll realize that I am God .'"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 3415, bc 589, Ezekiel 29:17, Ezekiel 1:2, Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 20:1, Ezekiel 26:1, Ezekiel 40:1
Reciprocal: Isaiah 19:1 - Egypt Jeremiah 25:19 - Pharaoh Jeremiah 44:30 - I will Jeremiah 46:2 - Against Egypt Jeremiah 46:24 - she shall Ezekiel 24:1 - the ninth year Ezekiel 30:20 - General Ezekiel 32:1 - in the twelfth
Cross-References
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left that place. The servant carried with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Mesopotamia, to Nahor's city.
When Isaac was 40 years old, he married Rebekah. Rebekah was from Paddan Aram. She was Bethuel's daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Then Jacob said, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" The shepherds answered, "We know him."
Jacob said, "Look, it is still day and long before the sun sets. It is not yet time for the animals to be gathered together for the night. So give them water and let them go back into the field."
So Jacob stayed and worked for Laban for seven years. But it seemed like a very short time because he loved Rachel very much.
That night Laban brought his daughter Leah to Jacob. Jacob and Leah had sexual relations together.
Then Balaam spoke, and this was his message: "Balak, the king of Moab, brought me here from the eastern mountains of Aram. Balak said to me, ‘Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, speak against the Israelites.'
They did that because the Midianites and Amalekites from the east always came and destroyed their crops.
The Midianites, Amalekites, and other people from the east joined together to fight against the Israelites. They went across the Jordan River and camped in the Jezreel Valley.
The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the other people from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many people that they seemed like a swarm of locusts. It seemed like they had as many camels as there are grains of sand on the seashore.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month,.... In the tenth year Jeconiah's captivity, and Zedekiah's reign. The Septuagint version has it, the twelfth year; and the Arabic version, the twelfth month; and the Septuagint version again, the first day of the month; and the Vulgate Latin, the eleventh day of it. This month was the month Tebet, and answers to part of December, and part of January. This prophecy was delivered before that concerning Tyre, though placed after it, because fulfilled after it, which gave Nebuchadnezzar Egypt as a reward for besieging and taking Tyre:
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying; as follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The tenth year - Jerusalem had been besieged, but not taken. Jeremiah delivered his prophecy against Egypt, about the time when the approach of Pharaoh Hophra’s army caused the Chaldaeans for the time to raise the siege Jeremiah 37:5. This was the solitary instance of Egypt meddling with the affairs of Palestine or Syria after the battle of Carchemish (compare 2 Kings 24:7); it met with speedy punishment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXIX
This and the three following chapters foretell the conquest of
Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar, which he accomplished in the
twenty-seventh year of Jehoiachin's captivity. The same event
is foretold by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 46:13, c.
The prophecy opens with God's charging the king of Egypt
(Pharaoh-hophra) with the same extravagant pride and profanity
which were in the preceding chapter laid to the charge of the
prince of Tyre. He appears, like him, to have affected Divine
honours and boasted so much of the strength of his kingdom,
that, as an ancient historian (Herodotus) tells us, he
impiously declared that God himself could not dispossess him.
Wherefore the prophet, with great majesty, addresses him under
the image of one of those crocodiles or monsters which
inhabited that river, of whose riches and revenue he vaunted;
and assures him that, with as much ease as a fisherman drags
the fish he has hooked, God would drag him and his people into
captivity, and that their carcasses should fall a prey to the
beasts of the field and to the fowls of heaven, 1-7.
The figure is then dropped; and God is introduced denouncing,
in plain terns, the most awful judgments against him and his
nation, and declaring that the Egyptians should be subjected to
the Babylonians till the fall of the Chaldean empire, 8-12.
The prophet then foretells that Egypt, which was about to be
devastated by the Babylonians, and many of the people carried
into captivity, should again become a kingdom; but that it
should never regain its ancient political importance; for, in
the lapse of time, it should be even the BASEST of the
kingdoms, a circumstance in the prophecy most literally
fulfilled, especially under the Christian dispensation, in its
government by the Mameluke slaves, 13-16.
The prophecy, beginning at the seventeenth verse, is connected
with the foregoing, as it relates to the same subject, though
delivered about seventeen years later. Nebuchadnezzar and his
army, after the long siege of Tyre, which made every head bald
by constantly wearing their helmets, and wore the skin of off
every shoulder by carrying burdens to raise the fortifications,
were disappointed of the spoil which they expected, by the
retiring of the inhabitants to Carthage. God, therefore,
promises him Egypt for his reward, 17-20.
The chapter concludes with a prediction of the return of the
Jews from the Babylonish captivity, 21.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXIX
Verse Ezekiel 29:1. In the tenth year — Of Zedekiah; and tenth of the captivity of Jeconiah.
The tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month — Answering to Monday, the first of February, A.M. 3415.
