7<\/strong>. took hold by thy hand<\/em> ] Rather: take hold of thee with the hand<\/strong>, as Heb. marg. All the verbs are better put in the present: take hold dost break dost rend<\/strong>, &c.<\/p>\n madest to be at a stand<\/em> ] Rather: makest<\/strong> all loins to shake<\/strong> (reading him ‘adta for ha‘amadta, Psa 69:24<\/span>).<\/p>\n So Egypt was continually proving to Israel, to Jehoiakim and to Zedekiah. The tenses are present not past.<\/P> To be at a stand – <\/B>Others, to totter.<\/P><\/p>\n When they, <\/B>the Jews, unable to stand on their own legs, as men ready to fall, took hold of thee by thy hand; caught thine hand to lean on, as when besieged by the Chaldeans. <\/P> Thou didst break:<\/B> it includes a designed and voluntary failure; Egypt would not support. <\/P> And rend all their shoulder; <\/B>didst tear, and pierce, and wound arm and shoulder, didst them much mischief instead of benefiting them, as thou hadst promised, Jer 37:7<\/span>; 42:17<\/span>. <\/P> When they leaned, <\/B>& c.; the same thing in words little different. <\/P> The loins<\/B> are the strength of a man: thou hast put them to use all their strength to repel the enemy, thou hast been chief occasion of their engaging against. <\/P> <\/p>\n 7. hand<\/B>or handle of the reed.<\/P> rend . . . shoulder<\/B>bythe splinters on which the shoulder or arm would fall, on the supportfailing the hand. <\/P> madest . . . loins . . . at astand<\/B>that is, made them to be disabled. MAURERsomewhat similarly (referring to a kindred Arabic<\/I> form), “Thouhast stricken both their loins.” FAIRBAIRN,not so well, “Thou lettest all their loins stand,” that is,by themselves, bereft of the support which they looked for from thee.<\/P><\/p>\n When they took hold of thee by thy hand<\/strong>,…. When the Israelites entered into an alliance and confederacy with the Egyptians, called for their assistance according to treaty, and put their confidence in them:<\/p>\n thou didst break and rend all their shoulder<\/strong>; as a reed which a man puts under his armhole, and leans upon, and it breaks under him, the splinters run into the flesh up to the very shoulder, and tear the flesh to pieces; so, through Zedekiah’s trusting to the king of Egypt, he rebelled against the king of Babylon, which brought on his ruin, and the destruction of his kingdom:<\/p>\n and when they leaned upon thee thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand<\/strong>; when they put their confidence in the king of Egypt, and sent to him for help when besieged by the king of Babylon, and he failed them, they were obliged to raise up themselves, as a man is forced to do when his staff breaks under him, whose loins before were bowed, but now erects himself, and stands and walks as well as he can without it; so the Jews were forced to stand upon their own legs, and exert all the force they had, and make all the efforts they could against the king of Babylon, being left in the lurch by the king of Egypt; in which, though they were rightly served for their vain confidence and not trusting in the Lord, yet the treachery of the Egyptians was resented by him, as follows:<\/p>\n II. THE PRIZE OF EGYPT 29:721<\/p>\n TRANSLATION<\/strong><\/p>\n (17) And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet neither he nor his army received any wages from Tyre for the service which he performed against it; (19) therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to give to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt; and he shall carry off her abundance, take her spoil and seize her prey; and she shall be the wages for his army. (20) I have given him the land of Egypt as his hire for which he served, because they did it for Me (oracle of the Lord GOD). (21) In that day I will cause a horn to shoot up unto the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.<\/p>\n COMMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n The second Egypt oracle dates to New Years day (April, 26 571 B.C.) (Eze. 29:17<\/span>), It is the latest oracle in the entire book. The placement here is appropriate, however, because the oracle connects the invasion of Egypt with the cessation of the Babylonian siege of Tyre which took place about 574 B.C.<\/p>\n Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre for thirteen years, and in so doing he had rendered a great service to God. His soldiers were weary with that warfare. Bald spots worn by ill-fitting helmets marked the heads of the besiegers. The skin of their shoulders was raw from carrying heavy loads of timber and stone to construct the siege works. But in spite of his determined effort to cross the narrow arm of the sea and reach the island fortress, Nebuchadnezzar had been unsuccessful.[444] Neither he nor his troops had been enriched through the spoils of war which generally made a lengthy siege operation rewarding (Eze. 29:18<\/span>).<\/p>\n [444] What exactly took place a t Tyre is uncertain. Ezekiel does not actually say Nebuchadnezzar was unsuccessful there. He only indicates that the material reward for his siege efforts was not sufficient.<\/p>\n To compensate Nebuchadnezzar for the service he rendered at Tyre, God decreed that he should be given the land of Egypt.[445] The spoils of that great north African nation would fall into the hands of the Chaldeans (Eze. 29:19<\/span>). Nebuchadnezzar was entitled to this booty, for all that he had done at Tyre he had done in the service of the Lord (they worked, for me, Eze. 29:20<\/span>).<\/p>\n [445] Jeremiah also foretold Nebuchadnezzars invasion of Egypt. Cf. Jer. 41:8-13<\/span>; Jer. 46:1-25<\/span>.<\/p>\n A Babylonian force invaded Egypt in 568 B.C. Owing to the damaged state of the inscription which alludes to this campaign it is impossible to accurately gage the success of the effort. It is known that Pharaoh Ahmose II came to terms with the invaders.<\/p>\n In Eze. 29:21<\/span> Ezekiel indicates three results of Nebuchadnezzars invasion of Egypt (1) a horn, symbol of power and prosperity would spring forth for the house of Israel. This prophecy seems to be saying that Israels restoration would correspond to Egypts humiliation. Egypts period of humiliation ended in 530 B.C. Israels period of restoration began some eight or nine years earlier when Cyrus allowed the Jews to return home. (2) Nebuchadnezzars invasion of Egypt in 568 B.C. would cause Ezekiels dumbness to be removed. His prophetic ministry would be vindicated. No longer would he feel his tongue restrained by the skepticism of his people. (3) They would know that Yahweh is God, and that He truly had revealed Himself to Ezekiel His messenger (Eze. 29:21<\/span>).<\/p>\n (7) All their loins to be at a stand.<\/strong>The expression is a difficult one, but the more probable sense is, all their loins to shake.<\/em> The reed breaks under the weight of the man who leans upon it, and pierces his shoulder as he falls, while in his consternation his loins tremble.<\/p>\n 7<\/strong>. <\/strong> Took<\/strong>, etc. All verbs in present tense. <\/p>\n By thy <\/strong> Rather, with thee. <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Shoulder <\/strong> LXX., hand <\/em> (Isa 26:6<\/span>). <\/p>\n To be at a stand <\/strong> Rather, R.V., margin, “to shake.” (Compare<\/span>Eze 21:6<\/span>.) The thing which they grasp for help, tears the hand which clasps it, and when they try to lean upon it it breaks and makes their hips to totter (Kautzsch).<\/p>\n Eze 29:7<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>When they took hold of thee, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> For when they took hold of thee, thou wast broken in their hand, and didst rend the hand of each of them. When they leaned upon thee thou breakest, and didst loose <\/em>or put out of joint all their shoulders. <\/em>Houbigant. Instead of, By thy hand, s<\/em>ome read, With their hands; <\/em>and instead of, All their loins to be at a stand;All their loins shake, <\/em>or to be pierced.<\/em> <\/p>\n Eze 29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.<\/p>\n Ver. 7. When they took hold of thee by thy hand,<\/strong> ] i.e., <\/em> Made a covenant with thee, and hoped for help from thee. See Job 8:20<\/span> . The Holy Scripture is its own best interpreter. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thou didst break.<\/strong> ] So unfaithful are many friends, so uncertain are all human helps. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And madest all their loins to be at a stand.<\/strong> ] Thou leftest them in the lurch, as we say, to shift for themselves as they could.<\/p>\n to be at a stand = to come to a stand, or to halt. Ginsburg thinks, to shake” (Isa 69:2). <\/p>\n they took: Eze 17:15-17, Jer 37:5-11 <\/p>\n thou didst: Psa 118:8, Psa 118:9, Psa 146:3, Psa 146:4, Pro 25:19, Jer 17:5, Jer 17:6 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ki 18:21 – the staff Job 16:12 – shaken Isa 19:17 – the land Isa 20:5 – afraid Isa 30:2 – walk Isa 36:6 – General Jer 2:36 – thou also shalt Jer 37:7 – Pharaoh’s Lam 4:17 – our eyes Eze 5:8 – in the Eze 17:17 – shall Eze 29:16 – the confidence Zec 1:15 – and<\/p>\n Eze 29:7. It was not according to the will of God for his people to lean upon Egypt, for support. However, since that nation evidently encouraged them to do so, it was like breaking a promise for it to come short of the assistance intimated that it would give. This failure was one cause of the Lord’s wrath against that nation and it called forth His predictions against it which are here being recorded,<\/p>\n 29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and tear all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and make all their inward parts to {e} shake.<\/p>\n (e) When you felt their hurt, they would stay no more on you, but stood on their feet and put their trust in others.<\/p>\n When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst broke, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. 7. took hold by thy hand ] Rather: take hold of thee with the hand, as Heb. marg. 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