Ezekiel 30:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Of Aven and of Pi-beseth. — Aven is the same as On of Genesis 41:45; Genesis 41:50, and as Bethshemesh (House of the Sun) of Jeremiah 43:13, the Heliopolis of the Greeks, so called because from the remotest times a chief seat of the worship of the sun. The vowel points are slightly changed from On to make Aven, nothingness, often used of idols. Pi-beseth, on the monuments Pi-Pasht — so called from the cat-headed goddess there worshipped — is Bubastis, situated on the canal leading from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile towards Suez.