Ezekiel 29:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. ”

Ezekiel 29:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So Egypt was continually proving to Israel, to Jehoiakim and to Zedekiah. The tenses are present not past. To be at a stand - Others, “to totter.”
Ezekiel 29:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and tear all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and make all their inward parts to (e) shake. (e) When you f...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 29-32. Oracle against Egypt. Next and last to be denounced is Egypt, the great rival of Babylon, and consequently the opponent of Yahweh's purpose. The separate oracles were written either...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

to be at. stand . to come to. stand, or to halt. Ginsburg thinks, to shake" (Isa 69:2).
Ezekiel 29:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
Ezekiel 29:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When they took hold of thee, &c.— For when they took hold of thee, thou wast broken in their hand, and didst rend the hand of each of them. When they leaned upon thee thou breakest, and didst...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. When they to...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Destruction of the Crocodile Pharaoh is compared to the crocodile of the Nile. God will drag him forth with hooks, and cast him, with the fish that stick to his scales, into the wilderness, as...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

All their loins to be at a stand. — The expression is a difficult one, but the more probable sense is, all their loins to shake. The reed breaks under the weight of the man who leans upon it, and...
Ezekiel 29:7 - 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...
Ezekiel 29:7 - 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...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here are sad things to be done for the humbling of Egypt, and which God will certainly accomplish. But what I particularly beg the Reader to observe, because it is indeed the general cause the Lord a...
Ezekiel 29:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When they took hold of thee by thy hand ,.... When the Israelites entered into an alliance and confederacy with the Egyptians, called for their assistance according to treaty, and put their confiden...
Ezekiel 29:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. Ver. 7. When they...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel This expression, a staff of reed , is very emphatical, to signify a confidence which has failed those that depended upon it, or has d...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Pride of Pharaoh; The Ruin of Pharaoh. B. C. 589. 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth mon...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When they, the Jews, unable to stand on their own legs, as men ready to fall, took hold of thee by thy hand; caught thine hand to lean on, as when besieged by the Chaldeans. Thou didst break: it...
Ezekiel 29:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Oracle Against Egypt ( Ezekiel 29:1-16 ). In this oracle Egypt is likened to a monster crocodile which Yahweh will hunt and dispose of (2-5), because of Pharaoh's pretensions ( Ezekiel 2...
Ezekiel 29:7 - 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...
Ezekiel 29:7 - 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...
Ezekiel 29:7 - 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...
Ezekiel 29:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Destruction of Pharaoh's Power and the Subsequent Restoration of Egypt
Ezekiel 29:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 17:15-17 ; Jeremiah 17:5 ; Jeremiah 17:6 ; Jeremiah 37:5-11 ; Proverbs 25:19 ; Psalms 118:8 ; Psalms 118:9 ; Psalms 146:3 ; Psalms 146:4
Ezekiel 29:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Rent — Didst them much mischief instead of benefiting them, as thou hast promised, Jeremiah 37:7 .

Ezekiel 29:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 29:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 29:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 29:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 29:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 29:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 29:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 29:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 29:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 29:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 29:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 29:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 29:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes