Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
In the evil only, not in the good, was Egypt to be parallel to Israel. The very downfall of Egypt will be the signal for the rise of Israel, because of God's covenant with the latter.
I cause the horn of . . . Israel to bud— (Psalms 132:17). I will cause its ancient glory to revive: an earnest of Israel's full glory under Messiah, the son of David (Luke 1:69). Even in Babylon an earnest was given of this in Daniel (Daniel 6:2) and Jeconiah (Jeremiah 52:31).
I will give thee . . . opening of . . . mouth—When thy predictions shall have come to pass, thy words henceforth shall be more heeded (compare Ezekiel 24:27).
Two distinct messages: (1) At Ezekiel 30:1-9, a repetition of Eze. 29:1-16, with fuller details of lifelike distinctness. The date is probably not long after that mentioned in Ezekiel 29:17, on the eve of Nebuchadnezzar's march against Egypt after subjugating Tyre. (2) A vision relating directly to Pharaoh and the overthrow of his kingdom; communicated at an earlier date, the seventh of the first month of the eleventh year. Not a year after the date in Ezekiel 29:1, and three months before the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.
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