Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 30:14
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
14. Pathros is upper Egypt, or its capital, Eze 29:14. Zoan, or Tanis, the modern San, on the south shore of lake Menzaleh, according to Num 13:22 built seven years after Hebron, cf. Psa 78:12; Psa 78:43.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Zoan – Tanis, a city and nome of Lower Egypt Num 13:22. See the marginal reference note.
No – Diospolis. See the marginal reference note.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. I will make Pathros desolate] See the preceding chapter, Eze 29:14.
Zoan] Tanis, the ancient capital of Egypt.
No.] Diospolis, or Thebes, the city of Jupiter.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Parthos: see Eze 29:14.
Set a fire in Zoan: it may be literally understood, that Zoan, Tanis, for that is its name, should be burnt down to ashes; or metaphorically, of war, and civil dissensions.
No; a very great and populous city, situate on one of the mouths of Nilus, and on the sea, Nah 3:8. Now Alexandria stands where that did. But it was greater in sin than in people, and it was visited with very great and dreadful judgments, Nah 3:8-11, which see.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. PathrosUpper Egypt, with”No” or Thebes its capital (famed for its stupendousbuildings, of which grand ruins remain), in antithesis to Zoan orTanis, a chief city in Lower Egypt, within the Delta.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will make Pathros desolate,…. A country in Egypt;
[See comments on Eze 29:14], perhaps it was the first place that Nebuchadnezzar entered, and so went from place to place in the order hereafter mentioned:
and I will set fire in Zoan; or Tunis, a famous city in Egypt in the times of Moses, Nu 13:22. The Targum and Septuagint version call it Tanis here; and from hence a nome in Egypt was called the Tanitic nome. This city was burnt down by the king of Babylon: the place now built on the spot is called Mansourah, as Dr. Shaw w says:
and I will execute judgment in No. The Vulgate Latin version renders it Alexandria; and so does the Targum; of which place Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech interpret it; and so does Jerom; which, though built after these times by Alexander, and called so after his name, yet is supposed to be built on or near the place where ancient No stood. The city is now called Scanderoon, or Scanderea; the Turks calling Alexander Scander: here the judgments of God were executed in the destruction of it by the Chaldean army; and great devastations have been made in it since it was rebuilt by Alexander, by the Saracens, who destroyed all places where they came; so that, as Dr. Shaw x observes, it is somewhat extraordinary that the greatest part of the ancient walls, together with their respective turrets, should have continued entire quite down to this time. The Septuagint version calls it Diospolis, or the city of Jupiter, as does the Arabic version, that is, of Jupiter Hammon; the city of Thebes, where he was worshipped; as it is in a following verse called Hammon No; though Hillerus y thinks neither of these places are meant, neither Alexandria nor Diospolis; but Memphis, as it is rendered by the Septuagint in the next verse;
[See comments on Na 3:8].
w Travels, p. 304. Ed. 2. x Ib. p. 292. y Onomastic. Sacr. p. 571, &c.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(14) Pathros . . . Zoan . . . No.For Pathros, see Note on Eze. 29:14. Zoan (see Num. 13:22; Isa. 19:11) is Tanis, a city of Lower Egypt, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile. No, mentioned again in the next Verse, more fully written No-Amon (Nah. 3:8), is the celebrated Thebes of Upper Egypt, still famous for its ruins at Luxor and Karnac. The mention of these various cities is to make emphatic the universality of the judgment upon the whole land.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
14. Pathros See note on Eze 29:14. Zoan (Num 13:22; Isa 19:11) Tanis (modern San). This city commanded the northern highway to Syria, and was a royal city (probably the Raamses of the Bible, Exo 1:11; compare Psa 78:43) filled with monuments which even yet remain covered with inscriptions in which the kings call themselves “givers of all stability” “reducing every foreign land to nonexistence” ( Egyptian Exploration Fund, Second and Fourth Memoirs).
No No Amon (Nah 3:8) was Thebes (Jer 46:25). Hundreds of the mighty pillars of Thebes can be seen to-day lying in ruins, as if smitten by the fist of the Almighty. Professor R.S. Poole justly says that “nowhere else in Egypt has the solid masonry of the temples been thus destroyed.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 30:14. PathrosZoan Delta, or ThebaisTanis. No] Diospolis, or Thebes. Boch.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ver. 14. And I will set fire. ] See on Eze 30:8 .
In Zoan.
And will execute judgments in No.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Pathros. Upper, or Southern Egypt.
Zoan = Tanis: now San; an ancient Egyptian city in Lower Egypt (Num 13:22. Psa 78:12). See note on Isa 30:4.
No. No Ammon. Now Thebes (Nah 3:8). Compare Jer 46:25.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pathros: Eze 29:14
Zoan: or, Tanis, Num 13:22, Psa 78:12, Psa 78:43, Isa 19:11, Isa 30:4
will execute: Jer 46:25, Nah 3:8
Reciprocal: Exo 7:4 – by great Isa 11:11 – Pathros Jer 44:1 – Pathros Eze 25:11 – I will Eze 30:8 – when I Eze 30:19 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 30:14. Pathros was a division of the country, and Zoan and No (Thebes) were cities, and the Egyptians had their idolatrous worship practiced in all of these places, Gods jealousy against all forms of idolatry is bo intense He will not tolerate it.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 30:14-15. I will make Pathros desolate That is, Thebais; and will set fire in Zoan Or, Tanis, one of the ancient cities in Egypt, and the metropolis of the kingdom in Mosess time: see Psa 78:12; Psa 78:43. I will execute judgments in No Called the multitude of No, or Hamon-no, in the next verse, and probably the same with the city Thebes, famous for its hundred gates: see the note on Jer 46:25. I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt It is generally agreed that Sin is the same with Pelusium, one of the seven mouths of the Nile, which was commonly called the key of Egypt, as Suidas observes, and therefore was strongly fortified, that no enemy might gain admittance.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Specifically, God would desolate Pathros (Upper Egypt, between modern Cairo and Aswan, cf. Eze 29:14), He would burn up Zoan (Gr. Tanis), a chief city in the northeastern delta, and He would judge No (Gr. Thebes, modern Karnak and Luxor), Egypt’s southern capital. All the towns mentioned in these verses were important religious centers as well as large cities.