8<\/strong>. The name of the conqueror of Egypt is not indicated in this preliminary threatening. The sword that comes on Egypt is the sword of the Lord, cf. Eze 14:17<\/span>, Eze 32:11-13<\/span>. The land shall be utterly desolated, man and beast swept away. It need not be said that these prophetic threatenings have always an element of the ideal in them.<\/p>\n 8 12<\/strong>. For this irreligious self-exaltation Egypt shall be made a desolation from Migdol to Syene, even to the border of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n Therefore, <\/B>for thy atheistical pride, and thy perfidious mischief to the house of Israel, and other thy sins, <\/P> I will bring a sword upon thee; <\/B>war, and the effects of it. First, a civil war arose against this king Hophra, who, weak and contemned, and fallen under the jealousies and disgusts of his subjects after his overthrow in the deserts of Libya and Cyrene, was again overthrown by his rebel subjects in a bloody battle at Memphis, was taken in his flight towards Sain, his royal seat, and some time after strangled by the enraged rout. The next sword, brought on Hophras successor, and on the land of Egypt, was the sword of Nebuchadnezzar, in the same year after the overthrow of Tyre; the civil war of Egypt inviting him to take the occasion, and some few requests, it is likely, from the rebellious to assist them. <\/P> Cut off man, <\/B>by the sword in battle and sieges, and by famine. <\/P> And beast; <\/B>eaten up by a numerous army invading and prevailing, and which will drive away what they eat not. The same phrase you have Eze 14:13<\/span>,17<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n 8. a sword<\/B>Nebuchadnezzar’sarmy (Eze 29:19<\/span>). Also Amasisand the Egyptian revolters who after Pharaoh-hophra’s discomfiture inCyrene dethroned and strangled him, having defeated him in a battlefought at Memphis [JUNIUS].<\/P><\/p>\n Therefore thus saith the Lord God<\/strong>,…. Because of the pride of the king of Egypt, asserting the river to be his own, and made by him for himself; and because of his perfidy to the house of Israel:<\/p>\n behold, I will bring a sword upon thee<\/strong>; or those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; first a cival war, occasioned by the murmurs of the people, on account of the defeat of their army at Cyrene; which issued in the dethroning and strangling of this king, as before observed and setting up another; which cival commotions Nebuchadnezzar took the advantage of, and came against Egypt with a large army:<\/p>\n and cut off man and beast out of thee<\/strong>; for what with the civil wars among themselves, and what with the devastations of the king of Babylon’s army, putting men to the sword, and seizing upon the beasts for their food, to support such an army in a foreign land, it was pretty well stripped of both.<\/p>\n Fall and Restoration of Egypt.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> B. C.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN> 589.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TABLE> 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD<\/B>; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am<\/I> the LORD<\/B>: because he hath said, The river is<\/I> mine, and I have made it.<\/I> 10 Behold, therefore I am<\/I> against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and<\/I> desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are<\/I> desolate, and her cities among the cities that are<\/I> laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD<\/B>; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into<\/I> the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their<\/I> iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am<\/I> the Lord GOD<\/B>.<\/P> This explains the foregoing prediction, which was figurative, and looks something further. Here is a prophecy,<\/P> I. Of the ruin of Egypt. The threatening of this is very full and particular; and the sin for which this ruin shall be brought upon them is their pride, v.<\/I><\/span> 9<\/span>. They said, The river is mine and I have made it;<\/I> therefore their land shall spue them out. 1. God is against them, both against the king and against the people, against thee and against thy rivers.<\/I> Waters signify people and multitudes,<\/I> Rev. xvii. 15<\/I><\/span>. 2. Multitudes of them shall be cut off by the sword of war, a sword which God will bring upon them to destroy both man and beast,<\/I> the sword of civil war. 3. The country shall be depopulated. The land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 9<\/span>), the country not cultivated, the cities not inhabited. The wealth of both was their pride, and that God will take away. It shall be utterly waste (wastes of waste,<\/I> so the margin reads it), and desolate<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 10<\/span>); neither men nor beasts shall pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 11<\/span>); it shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are so,<\/I> v.<\/span> 12<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. This was the effect not so much of those wars spoken of before, which were made by them, but of the war which the king of Babylon made upon them. It shall be desolate from one end of the land to the other, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.<\/I> The sin of pride is enough to ruin a whole nation. 4. The people shall be dispersed and scattered among the nations (v.<\/I><\/span> 12<\/span>), so that those who thought the balance of power was in their hand should now become a contemptible people. Such a fall does a haughty spirit go before.<\/P> II. Of the restoration of Egypt after awhile, v.<\/I><\/span> 13<\/span>. Egypt shall lie desolate forty years<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 12<\/span>) and then I will bring again the captivity of Egypt,<\/I> v.<\/span> 14<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. Some date the forty years from Nebuchadnezzar’s destroying Egypt, others from the desolation of Egypt some time before; however, they end about the first year of Cyrus, when the seventy years’ captivity of Judah ended, or soon after. Then this prediction was accomplished, 1. That God will gather the Egyptians out of all the countries into which they were dispersed, and make them to return to the land of their habitation,<\/I> and give them a settlement there again, v.<\/I><\/span> 14<\/span>. Note, Though God will find out a way to humble the proud, yet he will not contend for ever, no, not with them in this world. 2. That yet they shall not make a figure again as they have done. Egypt shall be a kingdom<\/I> again, but it shall be the basest of the kingdoms<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 15<\/span>); it shall have but little wealth and power, and shall not extend its conquests as formerly; it shall be the tail of the nations, and not the head. It is a mercy that it shall become a kingdom again, but, to humble it, it shall be a despicable kingdom; it shall be a long time before it recover any thing like its ancient lustre. For two reasons it shall be thus mortified:– (1.) That it may not domineer over its neighbours, that it may not exalt itself above the nations,<\/I> nor rule over the nations,<\/I> as it has done, but that it may know what it is to be low and despised. Note, Those who abuse their power will justly be stripped of it; and God, as King of nations, will find out a way to maintain the injured rights and liberties, not only of his own, but of other nations. (2.) That it may not deceive the people of God (v.<\/I><\/span> 16<\/span>): It shall no more be the confidence of the house of Israel;<\/I> they shall no more be in temptation to trust in it as they have done, which is a sin that brings their iniquity to remembrance,<\/I> that is, provokes God to punish them not for that only, but for all their other sins. Or it puts them in mind<\/I> of their idolatries to return to them, when they look<\/I> to the idolaters, to repose a confidence in them. Note, The creatures we confide in are often therefore<\/I> ruined, because there is no other way effectually to cure us of our confidence in them. Rather than Israel shall be ensnared again, the whole land of Egypt shall be laid waste. He that once gave Egypt for their ransom<\/I> (Isa. xliii. 3<\/span>) will now give Egypt for their cure; and it shall be destroyed rather than Israel shall not in this particular be reformed. God, not only in justice, but in wisdom and goodness to us, breaks those creature-stays which we lean too much upon, and makes them to be no more, that they may be no more our confidence.<\/P> <\/p>\n 8<\/strong>. <\/strong> I will bring a sword <\/strong> It is Jehovah’s sword, even though Nebuchadnezzar holds it.<\/p>\n “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and beast. And the land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste, and they will know that I am Yahweh, because he has said, ‘The River (Nile) is mine, and I have made it’.”<\/p>\n We come back here to the major reason for Egypt’s judgment, because of its overweening pride (compare Tyre – chapter 28) and its claim not to owe anything to the hand of Yahweh. It proclaims its own divine self-sufficiency. So Yahweh will bring against it His sword of judgment (Eze 21:3-17<\/span>) which at this time is the sword of Nebuchadnezzar (Eze 21:20<\/span>; see Jer 46:13-26<\/span>), but is not limited to that. Nebuchadnezzar did later invade Egypt in 568\/7 BC, which would certainly result in devastation and is referred to in a damaged Babylonian tablet, (see also Eze 29:19<\/span>), but full details are not known and they eventually came to a compromise and became allies. This was later followed by Persian subjugation.<\/p>\n God’s Future Judgment on Egypt.<\/p>\n Eze 29:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.<\/p>\n Ver. 8. And cut off man and beast.<\/strong> ] With both which thou aboundest exceedingly, as being a very fruitful country; populosa et pecorosa.<\/p>\n NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 29:8-9 a<\/p>\n 8’Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast. 9The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD.<\/p>\n Eze 29:8 YHWH will bring death and destruction to all Egypt, human and animal. Animals were common Egyptian gods. Their devastation would symbolize YHWH’s power, as did the plagues of the Exodus.<\/p>\n Eze 29:9 Then they will know that I am the LORD This is a recurrent phrase (cf. Eze 6:14; Eze 7:27; Eze 12:20; Eze 15:8; Eze 29:9; Eze 32:15; Eze 33:29; Eze 35:3; Eze 35:9; Eze 35:14). YHWH wanted to be revealed through Israel’s abundance, moral standards, and theology, but because of her unfaithfulness, He is revealed through judgment, judgment on her and other idolatrous nations (i.e., Egypt).<\/p>\n I Will bring a sword. This phrase is peculiar to Ezekiel. See Eze 5:17; Eze 6:3; Eze 11:8; Eze 14:17; Eze 29:8; Eze 33:2; In Leviticus it is: “I will draw out the sword after you”. Compare Lev 26:33. <\/p>\n man. Hebrew, ‘adam. App-14. <\/p>\n Eze 29:8-12<\/p>\n Eze 29:8-12<\/p>\n “Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast. And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. Because he hath said the river is mine, and I have made it; therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh, even unto the border of Ethiopia. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation for forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”<\/p>\n THE ALLEGORY APPLIED<\/p>\n “I will bring a sword upon thee …” (Eze 29:8). This was the sword of Nebuchadnezzar, identified in Eze 29:17, below.<\/p>\n “A desolation for forty years …” (Eze 29:11-12). This is the big problem in this prophecy, because nearly all of the scholars seem very sure that there was never such a long period of desolation in the whole history of Egypt. However, there is too much that men do not know about the history of those times to allow very much dependence to be put in such opinions. Nebuchadnezzar did indeed capture Egypt, following the fall of Tyre; and if what that ruthless ruler did to Jerusalem is any gauge of what he probably did to Egypt, we may be very sure that Ezekiel’s prophecy was no exaggeration. Our inability to prove just exactly what all that desolation was cannot in any manner detract from the most circumstantial and accurate fulfillment of that later promise in this same prophecy regarding the perpetual place of Egypt throughout following history, in which the perpetual mediocrity of the nation was foretold. Our argument is that this portion of the prophecy alone proves the divine inspiration of the whole prophecy, and the believer should have no problem with trusting God for the fulfillment of the rest of it, whether or not, modern commentators know all about it.<\/p>\n I will: Eze 29:19, Eze 29:20, Eze 14:17, Eze 30:4, Eze 30:10, Jer 46:13-26 <\/p>\n cut: Eze 25:13, Eze 32:10-13, Gen 6:7, Exo 12:12, Jer 7:20, Jer 32:43 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Lev 26:25 – will bring Jer 46:26 – and afterward Eze 32:13 – destroy Eze 32:20 – fall Amo 8:2 – the end<\/p>\n Eze 29:8. I will bring a sword refers to the attacks that were to be made upon the country of Egypt, When God uses a certain man or nation or army to accomplish an end, or even when He only predicts that it is to occur, it is often spoken of as if He is the one who does it. In the present case we shall see that God will be the cause of the particular invasion into Egypt.<\/p>\n Eze 29:8-9. Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee This was fulfilled, first by the civil wars which broke out in Egypt, and next by the invasion of it by Nebuchadnezzar, who carried his victorious arms through the whole country, destroying wherever he came; and will cut off man and beast That is, destroy a vast number both of men and beasts. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate A great part of Egypt was, without doubt, laid waste and made desolate by the ravages of war. Because he hath said, The river is mine Arrogance and self-confidence are always spoken of in Scripture as highly displeasing to God. Whenever any one thinks, speaks, or acts as if he were self-dependent, and had safety, prosperity, and happiness in his own power, then do the Scriptures represent God as giving up such a one to calamity, to convince him how little reason he had to think highly of, or to trust in himself.<\/p>\n As punishment, Yahweh would bring war into Egypt that would slay man and beast. Egypt would become desolate and waste, and people would learn that the Lord is God.<\/p>\n Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. 8. The name of the conqueror of Egypt is not indicated in this preliminary threatening. The sword that comes on Egypt is the sword of the Lord, cf. 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