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Ezekiel 29:1-21
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Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:1-16Ezekiel 29:1-16 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryWorldly, carnal minds pride themselves in their property, forgetting that whatever we have, we received it from God, and should use it for God. Why, then, do we boast? Self is the great idol which all the world worships…Pride of Pharaoh; The Ruin of Pharaoh. (b. c. 589.)Ezekiel 29:1-7 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BiblePRIDE OF PHARAOH; THE RUIN OF PHARAOH. (B. C. 589.) Here is, I. The date of this prophecy against Egypt. It was in the tenth year of the captivity, and yet it is placed after the prophecy against Tyre, which was deliver…The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1Ezekiel 29:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryIn the tenth year, etc. The precision with which the dates of the several portions of the prophecy against Egypt are given, here and in Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1, Ezekiel 32:7, shows that…The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1-6Ezekiel 29:1-6 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe doom of Egypt. I. AN INSPIRED PREACHER PROPHESIES CONCERNING A GREAT FOREIGN NATION. The Hebrew prophet did not confine his attention to the little strip of territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, w…The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1-12Ezekiel 29:1-12 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe world-power doomed. The work of the prophet is clear and definite, He does not declare his own speculations, nor the conclusions of his own judgment. He can specify the day and the hour in which God makes known to h…The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1-6Ezekiel 29:1-6 · The Pulpit CommentaryEgypt: a guilty vaunt. Notwithstanding that Judah was now looking to Egypt for deliverance, Ezekiel uttered his strong and unqualified condemnation of that idolatrous power. The Hebrew prophet was always entirely unaffe…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:1-16Worldly, carnal minds pride themselves in their property, forgetting that whatever we have, we received it from God, and should use it for God. Why, then, do we boast? Self is the great idol which all the world worships…Matthew HenrycommentaryPride of Pharaoh; The Ruin of Pharaoh. (b. c. 589.)PRIDE OF PHARAOH; THE RUIN OF PHARAOH. (B. C. 589.) Here is, I. The date of this prophecy against Egypt. It was in the tenth year of the captivity, and yet it is placed after the prophecy against Tyre, which was deliver…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1-6Egypt: a guilty vaunt. Notwithstanding that Judah was now looking to Egypt for deliverance, Ezekiel uttered his strong and unqualified condemnation of that idolatrous power. The Hebrew prophet was always entirely unaffe…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1In the tenth year, etc. The precision with which the dates of the several portions of the prophecy against Egypt are given, here and in Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1, Ezekiel 32:7, shows that…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1-6The doom of Egypt. I. AN INSPIRED PREACHER PROPHESIES CONCERNING A GREAT FOREIGN NATION. The Hebrew prophet did not confine his attention to the little strip of territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, w…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1-12The world-power doomed. The work of the prophet is clear and definite, He does not declare his own speculations, nor the conclusions of his own judgment. He can specify the day and the hour in which God makes known to h…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:3-5Mightier than the mighty. It is ever the vocation of the prophet, and indeed of every religious teacher, to counteract the superficial views and to expose the worldly standards which too often obtain among men. In the t…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 29:3The great dragon. The word is cognate with that used in Genesis 1:21 for the great "whales," monsters of the deep. The "dragon," probably the crocodile of the Nile (compare the description of "leviathan" in Job 41:1-34.…Joseph S. Exell and contributors