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Ezekiel 29:2

“You human, turn toward Egypt and proclaim the terrible things that will happen to the king of Egypt and all his people.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

In Context

1Almost ten years after we had been taken to Babylonia, on the twelfth day of the tenth month of that year, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,

3Give the king this message from me, Yahweh the Lord: ‘You king of Egypt, I am your enemy; you are like [MET] a great monster/crocodile that lies in the streams along the Nile River. You say, “The Nile River is mine; I made it for myself.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 20:1One year King Sargon of Assyria sent the chief commander of his army to take his soldiers to capture Ashdod city in Philistia.

Jeremiah 25:17So, in the vision, I took that cup full of wine from Yahweh, and I took it to all the nations to which he sent me, and caused the leaders of those nations to drink some of that wine.

Jeremiah 25:19In the vision I went to Egypt and gave some of the wine to the king and his officials and many of his people,

Jeremiah 44:30I will cause Hophra, the king of Egypt, to be captured by his enemies who want to kill him, just like I caused King Zedekiah of Judah to be captured by the soldiers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.’” And that is what happened several years later.

Ezekiel 6:2“You human, turn toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy about what will happen to them, and say,

Ezekiel 21:2“You human, turn toward Jerusalem. Preach about what will happen to the temple there. Preach about what will happen to the Israeli people.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:2-8

Pride of Pharaoh; The Ruin of Pharaoh. ( b. c. 589.) 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks… Read the whole commentary →

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