Eze 30:5
30:5 {a} Cush, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people,
     and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall
     fall with them by the sword.

     (a) By Phut and Lud are meant Africa and Libya.

Eze 30:6
30:6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall
     fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the
     tower of {b} Syene shall they fall in it by the sword,
     saith the Lord GOD.

     (b) Which was a strong city of Egypt, @Eze 29:10.

Eze 30:18
30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day {c} shall be darkened, when I
      shall break there the {d} yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of
      her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall
      cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

      (c) Meaning that there will be great sorrow and
          affliction.
      (d) That is, the strength and force.

Eze 30:20
30:20 And it came to pass in the {e} eleventh year, in the first
      [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the
      word of the LORD came to me, saying,

      (e) Of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of Zedekiah's reign.

Eze 30:21
30:21 Son of man, {f} I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of
      Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to
      put a bandage to bind it, to make it strong to hold the
      sword.

      (f) For Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Pharaoh Nebo at
          Carchemish, @Jer 46:26.

Eze 30:22
30:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against
      Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break {g} his arms, the
      strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the
      sword to fall out of his hand.

      (g) His force and power.

Eze 30:25
30:25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
      the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know
      that I [am] the LORD, {h} 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.

      (h) By which we see that tyrants have no power of
          themselves, neither can do any more harm than God
          appoints and when he wills they must cease.

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