Ezekiel 30

Ezekiel 30:2

HOwle] namely, you Aegyptians and other Nations which are subject to, and confederate with them Woe worth the day] the Italian, what day is this?] namely, the day of the ruine of Aegypt, whereof he speaks hereafter.

Ezekiel 30:3

A cloudy day] namely, of horrible and strange calamities; as rainy dayes are very rare in Aegypt Of the heathen] the Italian, of the Nations] in which the prophane Nations, Egyptians, Aethyopians and others shall be visited and punished.

Ezekiel 30:4

In Aethyopia] a neighbouring and confederate Nation with Aegypt.

Ezekiel 30:5

Aethyopia] the Italian, Cush] people of Africa. See Genesis 10:6; Genesis 10:13 mixed people] See Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 25:24 Cub] the name of some part of Africke not mentioned elsewhere Of the land that is in league] the Italian, of the land that is in covenant] it might be some land which was confederate with Aegypt, or some countrey of divers Nations, which governed themselves in commonalties, which were confederate one with another. Unlesse the word of league or covenant be taken for the proper name of a city in Arabia, called Berites; for the common or mixed people also which were spoken of before, were of Arabia.

Ezekiel 30:6

They also] namely, those armies and Nations which shall take their parts, or relieve them.

Ezekiel 30:9

From me] the Italian, from my presence] namely, from Aegypt, where I will shew my selfe present by the execution of my judgements: For God is said to be present there where he operates In ships] upon the Red Sea, Isaiah 18:2 As in the day] as formerly all neighbouring Nations were astoshed at the report of the Aegyptians discomfiture in the Red Sea, Exodus 15:14 It commeth] namely, the foresaid calamity.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will make] that countrey which is most fruitfull, by reason of the abundance of waters which are in it, shall become barren and desolate, as if it were scorched up with the Sun. Or I will make the waters thereof to be no safeguard for it. See Jeremiah 50:28.

Ezekiel 30:13

Noph] called by the Ancients, Memphis.

Ezekiel 30:14

Pathros] The name of a countrey in Egypt Zoan] Which is Tanis, one of the chiefe cities of Egypt No] Which is Alexandria.

Ezekiel 30:15

Sin] Which is Pelusium, a strong frontier citie of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30:17

Aven] Or on which is the city Heliopolis Phibeseth] Called by Authors Bubathus These cities] namely, The multitude of people that is in them.

Ezekiel 30:18

In Tehaphnehes] This is the city of Daphne, which was, as it were, the gate of Egypt, at which the Chaldeans came in Shall be darkned] that is to say, an extreme calamitie, desolation and confusion shall overtake them The cloud] as who should say, a sudden storme of evills, v. 3.

Ezekiel 30:20

The eleventh] From Jehoiachins captivity, Ezekiel 1:2.

Ezekiel 30:21

I have broken] This hath a relation to the first overthrow of the Egyptians under Neco, Jerem. 46. 2. by which they lost a great part of that which they possessed out of Egypt, which is the broken arme, and there remained nothing to them but Egypt alone, which was the whole or sound arme; and after this losse, they could never recover nor defend themselves against the Chaldeans.

Ezekiel 30:24

My sword] namely, The execution of my judgement.