Jeremiah 46:25(v14)Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even…
Ezekiel 29:14(v14)I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a…
Psalms 78:12(v14)He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78:43(v14)how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
Numbers 13:22(v14)They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built…
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Isaiah 19:11(v14)The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I…
Nahum 3:8(v14)Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was…
Psalms 11:6(v15)On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Isaiah 11:11(v14)It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from…
Isaiah 30:4(v14)For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
Ezekiel 28:18(v16)By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought…
Ezekiel 30:8-9(v16)They will know that I am Yahweh when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. “ ‘ “In that day messengers will go out…
Nahum 1:6(v15)Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are…
Revelation 16:1(v15)I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv14–15Or, Tanis.
Or, Tanis.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Eze 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and…
Eze 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ver. 14. And I will set fire.] See on Eze 30:8.
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In Zoan.] Or Tanis, the inhabitants whereof are said to be those giants called Titans.
And will execute judgments in No.] Populous No, {Nah 3:8} called afterwards Alexandria, now Scanderoon.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Parthos: see Eze 29:14.
Parthos: see Eze 29:14.
Set a fire in Zoan: it may be literally understood, that Zoan, Tanis, for that is its name, should be burnt down to ashes; or metaphorically, of war, and civil dissensions.
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No; a very great and populous city, situate on one of the mouths of Nilus, and on the sea, Nah 3:8. Now Alexandria stands where that did. But it was greater in sin than in people, and it was visited with very great and dreadful judgments, Nah 3:8-11, which see.
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv14–16And I will make Pathros desolate,.... A country in…
And I will make Pathros desolate,.... A country in Egypt; See Gill on Eze 29:14, perhaps it was the first place that Nebuchadnezzar entered, and so went from place to place in the order hereafter mentioned:
and I will set fire in Zoan; or Tunis, a famous city in Egypt in the times of Moses, Num 13:22. The Targum and Septuagint version call it Tanis here; and from hence a nome in Egypt was called the Tanitic nome. This city was burnt down by the king of Babylon: the place now built on the spot is called Mansourah, as Dr. Shaw (w) says:
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and I will execute judgment in No. The Vulgate Latin version renders it Alexandria; and so does the Targum; of which place Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech interpret it; and so does Jerom; which, though built after these times by Alexander, and called so after his name, yet is supposed to be built on or near the place where ancient No stood. The city is now called Scanderoon, or Scanderea; the Turks calling Alexander Scander: here the judgments of God were executed in the destruction of it by the Chaldean army; and great devastations have been made in it since it was rebuilt by Alexander, by the Saracens, who destroyed all places where they came; so that, as Dr. Shaw (x) observes, it is somewhat extraordinary that the greatest part of the ancient walls, together with their respective turrets, should have continued entire quite down to this time. The Septuagint version calls it Diospolis, or the city of Jupiter, as does the Arabic version, that is, of Jupiter Hammon; the city of Thebes, where he was worshipped; as it is in a following verse called Hammon No; though Hillerus (y) thinks neither of these places are meant, neither Alexandria nor Diospolis; but Memphis, as it is rendered by the Septuagint in the next verse; See Gill on Nah 3:8.
(w) Travels, p. 304. Ed. 2. (x) Ib. p. 292. (y) Onomastic. Sacr. p. 571, &c.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv14–16In Zoan - Zoan shall be burnt down to…
In Zoan - Zoan shall be burnt down to ashes. In No - A great and populous city situate on one of the mouths of the Nile.
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Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Verse 14. I will make Pathros desolate] See the…
Verse 14. I will make Pathros desolate] See the preceding chapter, Eze 29:14.
Zoan] Tanis, the ancient capital of Egypt.
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No.] Diospolis, or Thebes, the city of Jupiter.
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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn v14Eze 30:14-15. I will make Pathros desolate — That…
Eze 30:14-15. I will make Pathros desolate — That is, Thebais; and will set fire in Zoan — Or, Tanis, one of the ancient cities in Egypt, and the metropolis of the kingdom in Moses’s time: see Psa 78:12; Psa 78:43. I will execute judgments in No — Called the multitude of No, or Hamon-no, in the next verse, and probably the same with the city Thebes, famous for its hundred gates: see the note on Jer 46:25. I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt — It is generally agreed that Sin is the same with Pelusium, one of the seven mouths of the Nile, which was commonly called the key of Egypt, as Suidas observes, and therefore was strongly fortified, that no enemy might gain admittance.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn v14Zoan - Tanis, a city and nome of Lower…
Zoan - Tanis, a city and nome of Lower Egypt Num 13:22. See the marginal reference note.
No - Diospolis. See the marginal reference note.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn vv14–15Taphnis, or Tanis, famous for the miracles of Moses.…
Taphnis, or Tanis, famous for the miracles of Moses. (Calmet) --- Alexandria. In the Hebrew No, which was the ancient name of that city, which was afterwards rebuilt by Alexander the Great, and from his name called Alexandria. (Challoner) --- Septuagint, "Memphis or Diospolis;" (Calmet) or Thebes, capital of Higher Egypt; (Bochart) though it seems rather a maritime town, Nahum iii. 8. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Pathros--Upper Egypt, with "No" or Thebes its capital (famed…
Pathros--Upper Egypt, with "No" or Thebes its capital (famed for its stupendous buildings, of which grand ruins remain), in antithesis to Zoan or Tanis, a chief city in Lower Egypt, within the Delta.
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv14–1614. Pathros — See note on Eze_29:14. Zoan (Num_13:22;…
14. Pathros — See note on Eze_29:14. Zoan (Num_13:22; Isa_19:11) — Tanis (modern San). This city commanded the northern highway to Syria, and was a royal city (probably the Raamses of the Bible, Exo_1:11; compare Psa_78:43) filled with monuments which even yet remain covered with inscriptions in which the kings call themselves “givers of all stability”… “reducing every foreign land to nonexistence” (Egyptian Exploration Fund, Second and Fourth Memoirs).
No — No Amon (Nah_3:8) was Thebes (Jer_46:25). Hundreds of the mighty pillars of Thebes can be seen to-day lying in ruins, as if smitten by the fist of the Almighty. Professor R.S. Poole justly says that “nowhere else in Egypt has the solid masonry of the temples been thus destroyed.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv14–1614. Pathros is upper Egypt, or its capital, Eze_29:14.…
14. Pathros is upper Egypt, or its capital, Eze_29:14. Zoan, or Tanis, the modern San, on the south shore of lake Menzaleh, according to Num_13:22 built seven years after Hebron, cf. Psa_78:12; Psa_78:43.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv14–15(14) Pathros . . . Zoan . . .…
(14) Pathros . . . Zoan . . . No.—For Pathros, see Note on Eze_29:14. Zoan (see Num_13:22; Isa_19:11) is Tanis, a city of Lower Egypt, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile. No, mentioned again in the next Verse, more fully written No-Amon (Nah_3:8), is the celebrated Thebes of Upper Egypt, still famous for its ruins at Luxor and Karnac. The mention of these various cities is to make emphatic the universality of the judgment upon the whole land.
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv14–15For Pathros, see note on Eze_29:14. Zoan joined with…
For Pathros, see note on Eze_29:14. Zoan joined with Noph in Isa_19:11, mentioned in Num_13:22 as older than Hebron is the Tanis of the Greeks, situated on the Tanitic branch of the Delta of the Nile. No; or, as in Nah_3:8, No Amon (equivalent to "the abode of Ammen the sacred name of the Egyptian Thebes. The LXX gives Diospolis; the Vulgate, by a curious anachronism, Alexandria.
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These are Yahweh's words about Egypt.
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For I will pour out my fury on Pelusium
Here "pour out my fury" represents punishing the people because of his great anger. AT: "For I will act in great anger against Pelusium" or "Because I am so angry, I will punish Pelusium severely" (See: Metaphor)
Pelusium
Pelusium is the name of a fortress in northern Egypt. (See: How to Translate Names)
cut off the multitude of Thebes
Here "cut off" represents killing the people. AT: "kill the very large number of people in Thebes" (See: Metaphor)
Thebes
This was the capital city of southern Egypt. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 3:14.
Then I will set fire in Egypt
Here "set fire" is an idiom meaning "start a fire." AT: "I will start a fire in Egypt" (See: Idiom)
Pelusium will be in great agony
Here "Pelusium" is a metonym for the people of the city near Pelusium, and "be in great agony" can be translated with the verb "suffer." AT: "The people of Pelusium will suffer terribly" or "The people of Pelusium will feel terrible pain" (See: Metonymy and Abstract Nouns)
Thebes will be broken up
This can be stated in active form. AT: "enemies will break up the walls and buildings in Thebes" or "enemies will destroy the Thebes" (See: Active or Passive)
Memphis will face enemies every day
Here "face enemies" represents seeing or having enemies. The name of the city is a metonym for the people who live in the city. AT: "The people of Memphis will have enemies every day" or "Enemies will fight against the people of Memphis every day" (See: Metonymy)
Memphis
Memphis was a very important city in Egypt. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 30:13.
Tyndale Open Study Notes2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv14–1530:14 The location of Zoan is modern Tanis in…
30:14 The location of Zoan is modern Tanis in the eastern part of the Nile delta, near where the Israelites had once worked as Pharaoh’s slaves. • Thebes was the sacred city of the god Amon and the capital of Upper Egypt in the south (so called because it was up the Nile River).
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv14–15 Or, Tanis.
Or, Tanis.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Eze 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and…
Eze 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ver. 14. And I will set fire.] See on Eze 30:8.
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In Zoan.] Or Tanis, the inhabitants whereof are said to be those giants called Titans.
And will execute judgments in No.] Populous No, {Nah 3:8} called afterwards Alexandria, now Scanderoon.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Parthos: see Eze 29:14.
Parthos: see Eze 29:14.
Set a fire in Zoan: it may be literally understood, that Zoan, Tanis, for that is its name, should be burnt down to ashes; or metaphorically, of war, and civil dissensions.
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No; a very great and populous city, situate on one of the mouths of Nilus, and on the sea, Nah 3:8. Now Alexandria stands where that did. But it was greater in sin than in people, and it was visited with very great and dreadful judgments, Nah 3:8-11, which see.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv14–16 And I will make Pathros desolate,.... A country in…
And I will make Pathros desolate,.... A country in Egypt; See Gill on Eze 29:14, perhaps it was the first place that Nebuchadnezzar entered, and so went from place to place in the order hereafter mentioned:
and I will set fire in Zoan; or Tunis, a famous city in Egypt in the times of Moses, Num 13:22. The Targum and Septuagint version call it Tanis here; and from hence a nome in Egypt was called the Tanitic nome. This city was burnt down by the king of Babylon: the place now built on the spot is called Mansourah, as Dr. Shaw (w) says:
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and I will execute judgment in No. The Vulgate Latin version renders it Alexandria; and so does the Targum; of which place Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech interpret it; and so does Jerom; which, though built after these times by Alexander, and called so after his name, yet is supposed to be built on or near the place where ancient No stood. The city is now called Scanderoon, or Scanderea; the Turks calling Alexander Scander: here the judgments of God were executed in the destruction of it by the Chaldean army; and great devastations have been made in it since it was rebuilt by Alexander, by the Saracens, who destroyed all places where they came; so that, as Dr. Shaw (x) observes, it is somewhat extraordinary that the greatest part of the ancient walls, together with their respective turrets, should have continued entire quite down to this time. The Septuagint version calls it Diospolis, or the city of Jupiter, as does the Arabic version, that is, of Jupiter Hammon; the city of Thebes, where he was worshipped; as it is in a following verse called Hammon No; though Hillerus (y) thinks neither of these places are meant, neither Alexandria nor Diospolis; but Memphis, as it is rendered by the Septuagint in the next verse; See Gill on Nah 3:8.
(w) Travels, p. 304. Ed. 2. (x) Ib. p. 292. (y) Onomastic. Sacr. p. 571, &c.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv14–16 In Zoan - Zoan shall be burnt down to…
In Zoan - Zoan shall be burnt down to ashes. In No - A great and populous city situate on one of the mouths of the Nile.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Verse 14. I will make Pathros desolate] See the…
Verse 14. I will make Pathros desolate] See the preceding chapter, Eze 29:14.
Zoan] Tanis, the ancient capital of Egypt.
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No.] Diospolis, or Thebes, the city of Jupiter.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v14 Eze 30:14-15. I will make Pathros desolate — That…
Eze 30:14-15. I will make Pathros desolate — That is, Thebais; and will set fire in Zoan — Or, Tanis, one of the ancient cities in Egypt, and the metropolis of the kingdom in Moses’s time: see Psa 78:12; Psa 78:43. I will execute judgments in No — Called the multitude of No, or Hamon-no, in the next verse, and probably the same with the city Thebes, famous for its hundred gates: see the note on Jer 46:25. I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt — It is generally agreed that Sin is the same with Pelusium, one of the seven mouths of the Nile, which was commonly called the key of Egypt, as Suidas observes, and therefore was strongly fortified, that no enemy might gain admittance.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v14 Zoan - Tanis, a city and nome of Lower…
Zoan - Tanis, a city and nome of Lower Egypt Num 13:22. See the marginal reference note.
No - Diospolis. See the marginal reference note.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv14–15 Taphnis, or Tanis, famous for the miracles of Moses.…
Taphnis, or Tanis, famous for the miracles of Moses. (Calmet) --- Alexandria. In the Hebrew No, which was the ancient name of that city, which was afterwards rebuilt by Alexander the Great, and from his name called Alexandria. (Challoner) --- Septuagint, "Memphis or Diospolis;" (Calmet) or Thebes, capital of Higher Egypt; (Bochart) though it seems rather a maritime town, Nahum iii. 8. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Pathros--Upper Egypt, with "No" or Thebes its capital (famed…
Pathros--Upper Egypt, with "No" or Thebes its capital (famed for its stupendous buildings, of which grand ruins remain), in antithesis to Zoan or Tanis, a chief city in Lower Egypt, within the Delta.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv14–16 14. Pathros — See note on Eze_29:14. Zoan (Num_13:22;…
14. Pathros — See note on Eze_29:14. Zoan (Num_13:22; Isa_19:11) — Tanis (modern San). This city commanded the northern highway to Syria, and was a royal city (probably the Raamses of the Bible, Exo_1:11; compare Psa_78:43) filled with monuments which even yet remain covered with inscriptions in which the kings call themselves “givers of all stability”… “reducing every foreign land to nonexistence” (Egyptian Exploration Fund, Second and Fourth Memoirs).
No — No Amon (Nah_3:8) was Thebes (Jer_46:25). Hundreds of the mighty pillars of Thebes can be seen to-day lying in ruins, as if smitten by the fist of the Almighty. Professor R.S. Poole justly says that “nowhere else in Egypt has the solid masonry of the temples been thus destroyed.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv14–16 14. Pathros is upper Egypt, or its capital, Eze_29:14.…
14. Pathros is upper Egypt, or its capital, Eze_29:14. Zoan, or Tanis, the modern San, on the south shore of lake Menzaleh, according to Num_13:22 built seven years after Hebron, cf. Psa_78:12; Psa_78:43.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv14–15 (14) Pathros . . . Zoan . . .…
(14) Pathros . . . Zoan . . . No.—For Pathros, see Note on Eze_29:14. Zoan (see Num_13:22; Isa_19:11) is Tanis, a city of Lower Egypt, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile. No, mentioned again in the next Verse, more fully written No-Amon (Nah_3:8), is the celebrated Thebes of Upper Egypt, still famous for its ruins at Luxor and Karnac. The mention of these various cities is to make emphatic the universality of the judgment upon the whole land.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv14–15 For Pathros, see note on Eze_29:14. Zoan joined with…
For Pathros, see note on Eze_29:14. Zoan joined with Noph in Isa_19:11, mentioned in Num_13:22 as older than Hebron is the Tanis of the Greeks, situated on the Tanitic branch of the Delta of the Nile. No; or, as in Nah_3:8, No Amon (equivalent to "the abode of Ammen the sacred name of the Egyptian Thebes. The LXX gives Diospolis; the Vulgate, by a curious anachronism, Alexandria.
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For I will pour out my fury on Pelusium
Here "pour out my fury" represents punishing the people because of his great anger. AT: "For I will act in great anger against Pelusium" or "Because I am so angry, I will punish Pelusium severely" (See: Metaphor)
Pelusium
Pelusium is the name of a fortress in northern Egypt. (See: How to Translate Names)
cut off the multitude of Thebes
Here "cut off" represents killing the people. AT: "kill the very large number of people in Thebes" (See: Metaphor)
Thebes
This was the capital city of southern Egypt. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 3:14.
Then I will set fire in Egypt
Here "set fire" is an idiom meaning "start a fire." AT: "I will start a fire in Egypt" (See: Idiom)
Pelusium will be in great agony
Here "Pelusium" is a metonym for the people of the city near Pelusium, and "be in great agony" can be translated with the verb "suffer." AT: "The people of Pelusium will suffer terribly" or "The people of Pelusium will feel terrible pain" (See: Metonymy and Abstract Nouns)
Thebes will be broken up
This can be stated in active form. AT: "enemies will break up the walls and buildings in Thebes" or "enemies will destroy the Thebes" (See: Active or Passive)
Memphis will face enemies every day
Here "face enemies" represents seeing or having enemies. The name of the city is a metonym for the people who live in the city. AT: "The people of Memphis will have enemies every day" or "Enemies will fight against the people of Memphis every day" (See: Metonymy)
Memphis
Memphis was a very important city in Egypt. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 30:13.
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stronghold
Egypt
fire
adversary
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv14–15 30:14 The location of Zoan is modern Tanis in…
30:14 The location of Zoan is modern Tanis in the eastern part of the Nile delta, near where the Israelites had once worked as Pharaoh’s slaves. • Thebes was the sacred city of the god Amon and the capital of Upper Egypt in the south (so called because it was up the Nile River).
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