Ezekiel 30:6

This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword.

7And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.

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Cross References

Job 9:13God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

Isaiah 31:3For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

Ezekiel 29:10See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 30:2-20

Prophecy against Egypt; Destruction of Egypt Foretold. ( b. c. 572.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! 3 For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia,… Read the whole commentary →

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