The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
Aven - meaning vanity or iniquity; applied by a slight change of the Hebrew name, to On or Heliopolis, in allusion to its idolatry. Here stood the temple of the sun, whence it was called in Hebrew Beth-shemesh -
i.e., 'the house of the sun' (Jeremiah 43:13). The Egyptian hieroglyphics call it 'Re Athom,' the sun, the father of the gods, being impersonate in Athom or Adam, the father of mankind.
Phi-beseth - i:e., Bubastis, in Lower Egypt, near the Pelusiac branch of the Nile: notorious for the worship of the goddess of the same name (Coptic, Pasht), the granite stones of whose temple still attest its former magnificence.
The young men of ... shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity - "these cities," rather, as Septuagint, 'the women'-namely, of Aven and Phi-beseth, in antithesis to "the young men." So in Ezekiel 30:18, "her daughters shall go into captivity" (Maurer).