The Strand Study Bible

EZEKIEL 30:18

EZEKIEL 31:9

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ies shall go into captivity. P 18 1 At 2 Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strengthshall cease inher: as forher, acloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. P 19 1 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD. P READ NEXT - Daniel 4:4-37 The promise of Egypt’s fall to Babylon (Fulfilled - 568 BC) 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the 3 word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, 1 it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. P 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, 1 and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. P 23 1 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. P 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: 1 but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groan- ings of a deadly wounded man. P 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, 1 and the arms of Pha- raoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. P (Note - This portion of Ezekiel’s prophecy took place in the 11th year of King Zedekiah’s reign) Date Written - Apr 7th, 586 BC/AM 3414

26 1 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD. P Ezekiel 31 The promise of Egypt’s fall to Babylon (Fulfilled - 568 BC) Date Written - June 1st, 586 BC/AM 3414 1 And it came to pass in the 4 eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the 3 word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. 6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branch- es did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the gar- den of God was like unto him in his beauty. 9 I have made him fair by the multi- tude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, 5 that were in the garden of God, envied him.

1. Fulfilled - 568 BC (Fall of Egypt) 2. or, “Tahpanhes” - Jere 2:16 3. Ezk 1:3,24

4. Jere 52:5-6 5. Gen 2:8-9

30:21 Egyptian monuments show a “flexed” arm was a symbol of Pharaoh’s strength. Thus God broke one of the arms of Pharaoh at Carchemish when Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar, crushed the Assyrian/Egyptian coalition c. 607 BC. He would eventually break the other arm and render Egypt absolutely useless in 568 BC with Egypt’s fall to Babylon (Jere 25:19-20 & 46:13- 26). 31:3 Assyria had been the most powerful empire in history up to that time (the meaning behind “ the Assyrian was a cedar ”). Interestingly enough, Egypt had been conquered by Assyria in 680 BC and Assyria was then conquered by Babylon in 612 BC. How then could Egypt resist the conqueror (Babylon) of her conqueror (Assyria)? If God can bring down Assyria (the most powerful empire in the world – vs 3-9), then He can bring down Egypt (Assyria’s vassal state). Point being: It’s over for Pharaoh and the Egyptians (vs 10-18).