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Ezekiel 30:4

in Ezekiel 30

A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

KJV

And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

This verse in Ezekiel 30

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

A repetition of a former prophecy against Egypt, just before the desolation of it begun by their own bad conduct, which gradually weakened them and prepared the way for the king of Babylon,

This site's exposition

Again the word of the LORD came to me

on Ezekiel 30:1-4

The oracle opens with the day of the Lord formula, Woe worth the day!, the day is near, applied to Egypt's own hour of judgment. Keil notes the phrase works on two levels throughout the prophets, a specific historical catastrophe and the pattern every such catastrophe previews.

This site's exposition

there will be anguish in Cush

Cush lay up the Nile south of Egypt, in what is now Sudan. Its kings had ruled Egypt as pharaohs for most of a century, and one of them, Tirhakah, marched against Sennacherib in 2 Kings 19:9. The two lands shared one fate.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 30, Verses 1 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, woe, woe to the day: For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud, the time of the nations shall be. And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

When the slain fall so thickly in Egypt great pain shall be in Ethiopia, both that in Africa, which is in the neighbourhood of Egypt on one side, and that in Asia, which is near to it on the other side. When their neighbour's house was on fire they could not but apprehend their own in danger; nor were their fears groundless, for they shall all fall with them by the sword,
And the sword shall come upon Egypt,....

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבָאָ֥הand it will come

    uvaahH935 →2568 times

  • חֶ֙רֶב֙a sword

    cherevH2719 →413 times

  • בְּמִצְרַ֔יִםon Egypt

    bemitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • וְהָיְתָ֤הand it will be

    vehayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • חַלְחָלָה֙anguish

    chalchalahH2479 →

  • בְּכ֔וּשׁon Cush

    bekhushH3568 →29 times

  • בִּנְפֹ֥לwhen fall

    binfolH5307 →435 times

  • חָלָ֖ל[the] slain

    chalalH2491 →94 times

  • בְּמִצְרָ֑יִםin Egypt

    bemitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • וְלָקְח֣וּand people will take away

    velakechuH3947 →966 times

  • הֲמוֹנָ֔הּwealth its

    hamonahH1995 →83 times

  • וְנֶהֶרְס֖וּand they will be torn down

    venehersuH2040 →43 times

  • יְסוֹדֹתֶֽיהָ׃foundations its

    yesodoteihaH3247 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 19:2

    “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

    it leads to

    • Judges 7:22

      And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the…

    • 1 Samuel 14:20

      Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.

    • Matthew 10:36

      A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

    • Matthew 12:25

      Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.

    • Revelation 17:12–17

      The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 29:8

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 14:17

      Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

  • Through

    Ezekiel 29:19

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 30:24–25

      I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.

    • Jeremiah 43:10–13

      Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.