19<\/strong>. take her multitude<\/em> ] i.e. carry away. Others: her wealth, or abundance, but wrongly, cf. Eze 30:4<\/span>; Eze 30:10<\/span>; Eze 30:15<\/span>, Eze 31:2<\/span>; Eze 31:18<\/span>. The words rather disturb the vigorous “spoil her spoil” (Eze 38:12-13<\/span>), and are wanting in LXX.<\/p>\n I will give the land of Egypt:<\/B> yet it is certain that the discontents of Egypt gave occasion, and the revolts of some of the subjects from Hophra, or Apries, and their inviting Nebuchadnezzar, gave him Egypt; but these were the irregularities of men, which God did wisely and justly manage to effect what he designed, and God gave, and men gave too; as the ten tribes gave, so God gave, the kingdom to Jeroboam; so the first cause and second causes produce the same effect. Her multitude<\/I>; common people, who shall be made captives by the power of the conqueror, and servants or slaves next by the will of those that buy them of the soldier. <\/P> Her spoil:<\/B> much of the Egyptian riches were the spoil of other nations, or the spoils of one another in the late civil wars between Pharaoh-hophra and Areasis; and now their dishonest gains shall be a prey to Babylonians. <\/P> Her prey; <\/B>that which was once anothers possession, whilst right prevailed; but became a prey when Egypts power mastered the possessors. <\/P> The wages for his army:<\/B> his army could not have plunder of Tyre, because it was surrendered on terms, but now they shall, and this shall be their prey. <\/P> <\/p>\n 19. multitude<\/B>not asFAIRBAIRN, “store”;but, he shall take away a multitude of captives<\/I> out of Egypt.The success of Nebuchadnezzar is implied in Tyre’s receiving a kingfrom Babylon, probably one of her captives there, Merbal. <\/P> take her spoil . . .prey<\/B>literally, “spoil her spoil, prey her prey,”that is, as she spoiled other nations, so shall she herself be aspoil to Babylon.<\/P><\/p>\n Therefore thus saith the Lord God<\/strong>,…. Since this was the case, that the king of Babylon had been working for nothing, and had spent much blood and treasure, as well as time, to little purpose and advantage to himself;<\/p>\n behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon<\/strong>; which will make him a sufficient recompence for his loss of time, men, and money, before Tyre; and though the conquest of Egypt was made easy to him, by the internal divisions and wars which were among the Egyptians; yet these were suffered, and ordered by the providence of God, to bring about this his will, by way of righteous punishment of the Egyptians, for their treachery to his people, and other sins:<\/p>\n and he shall take her multitude<\/strong>, of soldiers, and of inhabitants, and carry them captive:<\/p>\n and take her spoil, and take her prey<\/strong>; that which the Egyptians had spoiled other nations of and made a prey of that should now become the spoil and prey of the Chaldeans:<\/p>\n and it shall be the wages for his army<\/strong>; with this the king of Babylon would be able to pay off the arrears of his army; which had lain so long against Tyre; or this would be a recompence to them for all the hardships they there sustained.<\/p>\n (19) I will give.<\/strong>In the original this is in the form of a participle; literally, I am giving.<\/em> This form is often used of the future, but with especial appropriateness of the immediate future. The other tenses, according to the Hebrew usage, take the temporal meaning of the principal verb. This seems probably to have been spoken at the very time of Nebuchadnezzars campaign and conquest. On the evidence that he did actually conquer Egypt, see Excursus<\/em> at the end of the book. He must have there found abundant booty, as the kings of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty were commercial, and greatly given to the accumulation of wealth.<\/p>\n EXCURSUS E: ON CHAPTER 29:19.ON NEBUCHADNEZZARS CONQUEST OF EGYPT.<\/strong><\/p>\n The fact of this conquest having been called in question, it may be well to state very briefly the points of evidence in its favour. It is admitted by all that Pharaoh-Hophra was dethroned, and died a violent death, and was succeeded by Amasis, who was at first little regarded by the people, though he afterwards won their confidence. The account given of this revolution by the Egyptian priests to Herodotus makes no mention of any foreign interference, but represents it as wholly an internal affair, caused by a revolt of the troops of Hophra, He sent Amasis to them to bring them back to their allegiance, but they saluted him as king. This authority is suspicious, since the priests were prone to cover up whatever they considered against the honour of their country; and the two facts of the popularity of Amasis with the troops and his unpopularity with the people are scarcely consistent, since it is said that he spared Hophra for a time, but afterwards, yielding to the wishes of the people, strangled him. Now against this suspicious and interested story stands the much more probable supposition that Hophra was dethroned and Amasis put into his place by the power of Nebuchadnezzar. Megasthenes and Berosus, according to Josephus, expressly testify that Nebuchadnezzar conquered a great part of Africa, and having invaded Egypt, took many captives, who were committed to the charge of persons appointed to conduct them after him to Babylon. This conquest, according to the dates already given, must be placed just at the time of the fall of Hophra. Besides this, there is a very full prophecy of the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 46<\/span>), uttered in the first year of his reign (comp. Jer. 46:1<\/span> with Jer. 25:1<\/span>). But Jeremiah was himself afterwards carried into Egypt, and while there uttered other prophecies to the same effect (Jeremiah 43, 44). It is altogether probable that he was still living there at the time of Nebuchadnezzars expedition; and, on the lowest grounds, it is inconceivable that he should have allowed these various prophecies to remain on record if they had been proved false by the event. The same thing substantially may be said also of the present prophecy of Ezekiel, and of that in Eze. 30:10<\/span>, although the prophet was not, like Jeremiah, living where he could be an eye-witness of the result of the attack. Other prophecies against Egypt (Isaiah 18, 19, 31; Joe. 3:19<\/span>) are more general, and may not have in view this particular conquest.<\/p>\n Again, Ezekiel represents Egypt as spoiled by Nebuchadnezzar, while both ancient history and the monuments describe the country as rich and prosperous under Amasis. There is really no inconsistency, but entire harmony between these accounts. The great drain upon the resources of Egypt for many generations had been her foreign wars with the powers of Mesopotamia. Relieved of this, and at peace with Nebuchadnezzar, under the government of his vassal, Egypt would soon have recovered her prosperity in wealth and art, while still politically desolated and no longer able to appear as a great power among the nations. From this time through all subsequent history Egypt was a base kingdom, and never again able to dispute, as in former days, the sovereignty of the world.<\/p>\n There is an apparent difficulty about the date of this conquest, alluded to under Eze. 29:17<\/span>. The prophecy of Ezekiel is in the future, and yet was spoken in the thirty-fifth year of Nebuchadnezzar (the twenty-seventh from the accession of Zedekiah). Now, Jerusalem was taken in his nineteenth year (2Ki. 25:8<\/span>). and an interval of sixteen years seems, at first sight, inconsistent with the statement of Josephus. But if that statement be examined, it will be found to be entirely indefinite (see under Eze. 29:17<\/span>), and it is hardly to be supposed that Nebuchadnezzar would have undertaken the conquest of Egypt while still engaged in the siege of Tyre; in fact, Eze. 29:18-19<\/span> distinctly imply that the one was subsequent to the other. Now, the siege of Tyre appears to have been begun about two years after the capture of Jerusalem, and lasted thirteen years. It closed then fifteen years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and supposing the campaign against Egypt to have followed immediately, in the next year, we get the exact date of this prophecy. (For the references to Josephus, see Antiqq.,<\/em> Bk. x., cap. ix., 7; Cont. Ap.,<\/em> Bk. 1, 19, 20.)<\/p>\n “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will carry off large numbers of her people, and take her spoil and take her prey. And it will be wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wrought for me, says the Lord Yahweh.”<\/p>\n So as a reward and recompense for Babylon’s efforts against Tyre on Yahweh’s behalf they were to be given Egypt, where they would find an abundance of spoils and slaves and livestock. Note the suggestion that Egypt was Yahweh’s to give. He is Lord of all.<\/p>\n ‘Because they wrought for me, says the Lord Yahweh.’ All Babylon had done they had done for Him. We do know that Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt although we have no details of the consequences (the inscriptions have been damaged) except that the new Pharaoh Ahmose II had finally to agree terms, and pay necessary tribute. It must have been a crushing defeat. But meanwhile the Babylonian army would have been taking spoils as described.<\/p>\n Eze 29:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.<\/p>\n Ver. 19. Behold, I will give the land of Egypt.<\/strong> ] As pay for his pains at Tyre. God is a liberal paymaster, and his retributions are more than bountiful; serve him, therefore, with cheerfulness.<\/p>\n I will give. See note on Eze 29:18, above. it shall be the wages. See the Structure on p. 1147. <\/p>\n I will: Eze 29:8-10, Eze 30:10-12, Jer 43:10-13 <\/p>\n take her spoil, and take her prey: Heb. spoil her spoil, and prey her prey <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Isa 19:4 – a cruel lord Isa 45:3 – I will give Jer 25:9 – against Jer 43:11 – he shall smite Eze 26:5 – and it Eze 30:4 – and they Eze 31:2 – to his Eze 32:12 – they shall Eze 32:15 – destitute of that whereof Eze 38:12 – General<\/p>\n Eze 29:19. As a reward for his hard and faithful service against Tyrus, the Lord predicts that Nebuchadnezzar will invade Egypt and reap much from the spoils of the country. Again let the reader see the note referred to in the preceding verse.<\/p>\n Eze 29:19-20. He shall take her multitude, and take her spoil Nebuchadnezzar and his army shall have the captives and spoil of Egypt, which they shall utterly pillage and lay waste. Because they wrought for me, saith the Lord The destruction of cities and countries is a work of Gods providence, for the effecting of which he makes use of kings and princes as his instruments. Upon this account he calls Nebuchadnezzar his servant, Jer 25:9, because he wrought for him, as it is here expressed, that is, executed his judgments upon Tyre, and the other cities and countries which God had delivered into his hands. Though Nebuchadnezzar was actuated by his own ambition to make the conquest of Tyre, yet, because in doing it he had executed Gods purposes, and that which was pleasing to him, in humbling the Tyrians, therefore God here declares that he should not go without a reward; for that he would give him the spoil of Egypt, which nation was ripe for punishment. If God is so gracious as to reward those who do but execute his designs accidentally, not intentionally, how much reason have we to expect that he will most amply reward those who intentionally obey his will!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yahweh announced that He would give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar as payment for executing His judgment against Tyre. Nebuchadnezzar would carry off the wealth of Egypt as spoil and plunder because he had labored for the Lord by defeating Tyre.<\/p>\n "The scant historical data indicates that Egypt and Tyre became allies under Pharaoh Hophra (Apries). The extended siege of Tyre was perhaps due to the aid Tyre received from the Egyptians. In such an act Hophra was going contrary to God’s purposes. Not only was the siege prolonged by Egyptian support, but some also surmise that Egypt’s maritime aid enabled Tyre to send away her wealth for security during the siege. When Tyre surrendered about 573 B.C. . . ., Babylonia gained almost no spoils from the long siege (Eze 29:18)." [Note: Alexander, "Ezekiel," p. 893.] <\/span><\/p>\n The absolutely consistent justice of God shines through in this prediction. He would even pay back an evil pagan king for serving Him, unconscious as Nebuchadnezzar was of his role. How much more can we count on God being fair with His own (cf. Gen 18:25; Mar 9:41; Gal 6:7).<\/p>\n Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 19. take her multitude ] i.e. carry away. 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