Ezekiel 29:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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,d and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. ”

• Ezekiel 29:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The prophet places this prediction out of chronological order, that he may point out what had not been stated in the foregoing prophecy, namely, that the agent who should strike the first blow on E...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Egypt and Tyre. This little oracle, the latest in the book (570 B.C.), is one of the most remarkable. It is a practical admission that Ezekiel's elaborate prophecy of the ruin of Tyre (Ezekiel 26 f...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I will give . See note on Ezekiel 29:18 , above. it shall be the wages. See the Structure on p. 1147.

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 t...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Son of man, &c.— Menander the Greek historian, Philostratus, and Josephus, all assert, that Nebuchadrezzar besieged Tyre thirteen years, when Ithobal was king there. The siege continuing so lon...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  § 3. Egypt (Ezekiel 29-32) The most of this series of prophecies against Egypt are connected with dates during the siege of Jerusalem, the time when Ezekiel was silent as a prophet of Israel. They...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I will give. — In the original this is in the form of a participle; literally, I am giving. This form is often used of the future, but with especial appropriateness of the immediate future. The o...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1-21 ; Ezekiel 30:1-26 ; Ezekiel 31:1-18 ; Ezekiel 32:1-32 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power cherishing projects of universal dominion. Once...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Ezekiel then uttered the doom of one. Egypt had been the principal foe of the people of God, and against her were uttered seven prophecies, which are placed here in an order of purpose rather than in...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There was a long interval, even of seventeen years, between the first part of this chapter and the prophecy here delivered, and it should seem to have been the last of Ezekiel's prophecies. But there...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord God ,.... 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...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 t...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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,...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  A Promise to Nebuchadnezzar. B. C. 589.       17 And it came to pass in the seven and twenti...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I will give the land of Egypt: 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...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Oracles Against Egypt ( Ezekiel 29:1 to Ezekiel 32:32 ). This section of the book is composed of seven oracles issued against Egypt. The fact that there are seven is probably deliberate in o...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE FIRST OF FOUR Chapter S DIRECTED AGAINST EGYPT (Chap. 29) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“Pharaoh, a monarch with whom the Hebrews were frequently in contact, is represented as vaunting in the security of hi...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 29:2 . Set thy face against Pharaoh. Against the dragon, the alligator, for the Nile once had alligators. The figurative language here is very majestic, and calculated to impress the Egypt...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Because they wrought for Me. Service done for God rewarded I. The disposal of states and nations is the work of Divine providence. 1. Do we examine this dispensation in reference to the auth...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ezekiel 29:1 In the tenth year , etc. The precision with which the dates of the several portions of the prophecy against Egypt are given, here and in Ezekiel 29:17 ; Ezekiel 3...

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Conquest and Spoil of Egypt

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 29:8-10 ; Ezekiel 30:10-12 ; Jeremiah 43:10-13

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• Ezekiel 29:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Her multitude — Common people, who shall be made captives, and servants or slaves. Her prey — What she had before taken from others. The wages — God will be behind — hand with none, who do any serv...

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