And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
The king of Egypt - i:e., Pharaoh-nechoh.
For the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. He was defeated at Carchemish by the forces of the young king Nebuchadnezzar, who wrested from him all his acquisitions both in Northern, and Southern Syria (see Rawlinson's Herodotus, 2:, p.
247).