Ezekiel 29:19

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
saith	אָמַר֙ 'a.Mar	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Lord	אֲדֹנָ֣י 'a.do.Nai	H136	the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) · proper noun, a title
GOD	יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh	H3069	YHWH · proper noun, a title
give	נֹתֵ֛ן no.Ten	H5414	to give · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
land	אֶ֣רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular construct
Egypt	מִצְרָ֑יִם mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · proper noun, a place name
Nebuchadrezzar	לִנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר lin.vu.khad.re.Tzar	H5019	Nebukadnetstsar (or -retstsar · preposition + proper noun, a man's name
king	מֶֽלֶךְ Me.lekh-	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine singular construct
Babylon	בָּבֶ֖ל ba.Vel	H894	Babel (i.e. Babylon) · proper noun, a place name
take	וְנָשָׂ֨א ve.na.Sa'	H5375	to lift · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
multitude	הֲמֹנָ֜הּ ha.mo.Nah	H1995	a noise · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
take	וְשָׁלַ֤ל ve.sha.Lal	H7997	to drop or strip · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
spoil	שְׁלָלָהּ֙ she.la.Lah	H7998	booty · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
take	וּבָזַ֣ז u.va.Zaz	H962	to plunder · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
prey	בִּזָּ֔הּ bi.Zah	H957	plunder · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
wages	שָׂכָ֖ר sa.Khar	H7939	payment of contract · noun, common masculine singular absolute
army	לְחֵילֽוֹ le.chei.Lo	H2428	probably a force · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 43:10-13 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my serv…
Ezekiel 30:24-25 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan bef…
Ezekiel 30:10-12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 32:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Ezekiel 30:4 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 m…
Ezekiel 29:8-10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:17–end

The date of this prophecy is observable; it was in the twenty-seventh year of Ezekiel's captivity, sixteen years after the prophecy in the former part of the chapter, and almost as long after those which follow in the next chapters; but it comes in here for the explication of all that was said against Egypt. After the destruction of Jerusalem Nebuchadnezzar spent two or three campaigns in the conquest of the Ammonites and Moabites and making himself master of their countries. Then he spent thirteen years in the siege of Tyre. During all that time the Egyptians were embroiled in war with the Cyrenians and one with another, by which they were very much weakened and impoverished; and just at th…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 29:19

multitude--not as FAIRBAIRN, "store"; but, he shall take away a multitude of captives out of Egypt. The success of Nebuchadnezzar is implied in Tyre's receiving a king from Babylon, probably one of her captives there, Merbal. take her spoil . . . prey--literally, "spoil her spoil, prey her prey," that is, as she spoiled other nations, so shall she herself be a spoil to Babylon.

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 29:18

Caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus - He was thirteen years employed in the siege. See Joseph. Antiq. lib. 10 c. 11. In this siege his soldiers endured great hardships. Being continually on duty, their heads became bald by wearing their helmets; and their shoulders bruised and peeled by carrying baskets of earth to the fortifications, and wood, etc., to build towers, etc. Yet had he no wages, nor his army - The Tyrians, finding it at last impossible to defend their city, put all their wealth aboard their vessels, sailed out of the port, and escaped for Carthage; and thus Nebuchadnezzar lost all the spoil of one of the richest cities in the world.

John Gill on Ezekiel 29:19

Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Since this was the case, that the king of Babylon had been working for nothing, and had spent much blood and treasure, as well as time, to little purpose and advantage to himself; behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; which will make him a sufficient recompence for his loss of time, men, and money, before Tyre; and though the conquest of Egypt was made easy to him, by the internal divisions and wars which were among the Egyptians; yet these were suffered, and ordered by the providence of God, to bring about this his will, by way of righteous punishment of the Egyptians, for their treachery to his people, and other sin…

Dictionary and topics

Egypt — The land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture. The Egyptians belonged to the white race, and their original…
Nebuchadnezzar — In the Babylonian orthography Nabu-kudur-uzur, which means “Nebo, protect the crown!” or the “frontiers.” In an inscription he styles himself “Nebo’s favourite.” He was the son and successor of…
Babylon · .Prophecies concerning — .Prophecies concerning
Egypt · Prophecies respecting: Spoil of, a reward to Babylon for services against Tyre — Prophecies respecting: Spoil of, a reward to Babylon for services against Tyre
Tyre · Prophecies respecting: The king of Babylon to be rewarded with the spoil of Egypt for his service against — Prophecies respecting: The king of Babylon to be rewarded with the spoil of Egypt for his service against

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 29:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:17–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 29:19

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 29:18

John Gill on Ezekiel 29:19

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 29:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:17–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 29:19

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 29:18

John Gill on Ezekiel 29:19

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 29:17–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 29:18-20

Rashi on Ezekiel 29:18