Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible

See the marginal reference note.

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible

"Thus saith Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall: and the pride of her powers shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah. And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed; in that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt, for, lo, it cometh."

DESTRUCTION TO INCLUDE ALLIES AND DEPENDENTS

The meaning of this paragraph is stated both at the beginning and at the end of it. "They also that uphold Egypt shall fall." "All her helpers are destroyed." Fear and anguish are prophesied here as coming upon Egypt and all of her helpers.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Thus saith the Lord, they also that uphold Egypt shall fall,.... That is, by the sword; either their allies and auxiliaries without, that supported the Egyptians with men and money; or their principal people within, their nobles that supported their state with their estates, their counsellors with their wisdom, their soldiers with their valour and courage:

and the pride of her power shall come down; or the power they were proud of, the dominion and grandeur they boasted of; the greatness of their king, and the largeness of their empire, with the wealth and riches of it:

from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord God; or rather, from "Migdol to Syene"; so the Septuagint and Arabic versions, from one end of Egypt to the other; the sword would ravage, and multitudes fall by it, in all cities and towns, between the one and the other; which denotes the general slaughter that should be made; See Gill on Ezekiel 29:10.

Geneva Study Bible

(b) Which was a strong city of Egypt, (Ezekiel 29:10).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

from the tower of Syene — (see on Ezekiel 29:10).

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

Upheld — Those that favour and help her.

The pride — The glory of all her strength.

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 30:6 Thus saith the LORD They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

Ver. 6. They that uphold Egypt shall fall,] i.e., Their confederates; or, as some, their tutelar gods. Herodotus writeth that Cambyses wasted with the sword Egypt and Ethiopia, killed their god Apis, and defaced all their idols. This he did, doubtless, rather in scorn of all religion than hatred of idolatry.

And the pride of her power shall come down.] Tumbling down as a great and weighty bullet from a very high and steep mountain.

From the tower of Syene.] See Ezekiel 29:10.

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 30:6. From the tower of Syene— Or, from Migdol to Syene.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They also that uphold Egypt; either the princes, counsellors, and martial men in Egypt, or those abroad, that favour her and help her.

The pride of her power; the glory of all her strength, of which she was proud.

Shall come down; be trodden under foot. From the tower; from Magdalum in the north-east part of Egypt, toward the Red Sea, to Syene in the most south-west part of Egypt. See Ezekiel 29:10.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

6.From the tower of Syene — Hebrews, from Migdol to Syene. (See note Ezekiel 29:10.)

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable

The Lord announced again ( Ezekiel 30:6-9) that the nations that supported Egypt would fall with her. Egypt would suffer humiliation from north to south (cf. Ezekiel 29:10) as the enemy slew many Egyptians.

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the tower, &c. See note on Ezekiel 29:10.

saith the Lord GOD = [is] Adonai Jehovah"s oracle.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged

Thus saith the LORD They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

From the tower of Syene - (see note, Ezekiel 29:10, and margin here, 'from Migdol to Syene').

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(6) From the tower of Syene.—From Migdol to Syene. (See Note on Ezekiel 29:10.)

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They also

Job 9:13; Isaiah 20:3-6; 31:3; Nahum 3:9

from the tower of Syene

or, from Migdol to Syene.

29:10