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Ezekiel 29:10
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8 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will bring aa sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast.  
9 And the land of Egypt shall become adesolate and waste; then they will know that I am the Lord, because he said, ‘The River is mine, and I have made it.’  
10 Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, aand I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, bfrom Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.  
11 aNeither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years.  
12 aI will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will bscatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”  
13 ‘Yet, thus says the Lord God: “At the aend of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.  
14 I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a alowly kingdom.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezekiel 29:10

from the tower of Syene—GROTIUS translates, "from Migdol (a fortress near Pelusium on the north of Suez) to Syene (in the farthest south)"; that is, from one end of Egypt to the other. So "from Migdol to Syene," Ezekiel 30:6, Margin. However, English Version rightly refers Syene to Seveneh, that is, Sebennytus, in the eastern delta of the Nile, the capital of the Lower Egyptian kings. The Sebennyte Pharaohs, with the help of the Canaanites, who, as shepherds or merchants, ranged the desert of Suez, extended their borders beyond the narrow province east of the delta, to which they had been confined by the Pharaohs of Upper Egypt. The defeated party, in derision, named the Sebennyte or Lower Egyptians foreigners and shepherd-kings (a shepherd being an abomination in Egypt, Genesis 46:34). They were really a native dynasty. Thus, in English Version, "Ethiopia" in the extreme south is rightly contrasted with Sebennytus or Syene in the north.




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