Ezekiel 30:17

The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
men	בַּח֥וּרֵי ba.Chu.rei	H970	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct
Aven	אָוֶן ʼÂven	H206	Aven
Pi-beseth	וּפִי u.fi-	H6364	Pi-Beseth · conjunction + proper noun, a place name
fall	יִפֹּ֑לוּ yi.Po.lu	H5307	to fall · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
sword	בַּחֶ֣רֶב ba.Che.rev	H2719	drought · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
go	יָלַךְ yâlak	H3212	to walk (literally or figuratively)
captivity	בַּשְּׁבִ֥י ba.she.Vi	H7628	exiled · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Genesis 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 30:1-19

The prophecy of the destruction of Egypt is here very full and particular, as well as, in the general, very frightful. What can protect a provoking people when the righteous God comes forth to contend with them? I. It shall be a very lamentable destruction, and such as shall occasion great sorrow (Eze 30:2, Eze 30:3): "Howl you; you may justly shriek now that it is coming, for you will be made to shriek and make hideous outcries when it comes. Cry out, Woe worth the day! or, Ah the day! alas because of the day! the terrible day! Woe and alas! For the day is near; the day we have so long dreaded, so long deserved. It is the day of the Lord, the day in which he will manifest himself as a God o…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 30:17

Aven--meaning "vanity" or "iniquity": applied, by a slight change of the Hebrew name, to On or Heliopolis, in allusion to its idolatry. Here stood the temple of the sun, whence it was called in Hebrew, Beth-shemesh (Jer 43:13). The Egyptian hieroglyphics call it, Re Athom, the sun, the father of the gods, being impersonate in Athom or Adam, the father of mankind. Pi-beseth--that is, Bubastis, in Lower Egypt, near the Pelusiac branch of the Nile: notorious for the worship of the goddess of the same name (Coptic, Pasht), the granite stones of whose temple still attest its former magnificence. these cities--rather, as the Septuagint, "the women," namely, of Aven and Pi-beseth, in antithesis…

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Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 30:17

Aven - Or On, the famous Heliopolis, or city of the sun. Pibeseth - Bubastum or Bubaste, by a slight alteration of the letters. It is situated on the eastern branch of the Nile, towards Arabia.

John Gill on Ezekiel 30:17

The young men of Aven and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sword,.... Aven is the same with On, of which Potipherah was priest in Joseph's time and whose daughter he married, Genesis 41:45, the same with Heliopolis, or Bethshemesh, the city of the sun, see Jeremiah 43:13; see Gill on Jeremiah 43:13; where was the temple of the sun, and where it was worshipped; and so it is rendered by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions. It is called here "Aven", or "vanity", because of the vain and idolatrous worship here performed. Phibeseth is the Bubastis of Herodotus, and called by other writers Bubastus; hence there was a nome or province in Egypt called the Bubastic nome, mentioned by Pto…

Dictionary and topics

Aven — Nothingness; vanity. (1.) Hosea speaks of the “high places of Aven” (10:8), by which he means Bethel. He also calls it Beth-aven, i.e., “the house of vanity” (4:15), on account of the golden calves…
On — Light; the sun, (Gen. 41:45, 50), the great seat of sun-worship, called also Bethshemesh (Jer. 43:13) and Aven (Ezek. 30:17), stood on the east bank of the Nile, a few miles north of Memphis, and…
Pathros — The name generally given to Upper Egypt (the Thebaid of the Greeks), as distinguished from Matsor, or Lower Egypt (Isa. 11:11; Jer. 44:1, 15; Ezek. 30:14), the two forming Mizraim. After the…
Pi-beseth — (Ezek. 30:17), supposed to mean. “a cat,” or a deity in the form of a cat, worshipped by the Egyptians. It was called by the Greeks Bubastis. The hieroglyphic name is “Pe-bast”, i.e., the house of…
Pibeseth — a town of lower Egypt, mentioned in (Ezekiel 30:17) the same as Bubastis, so named from the goddess Bubastis. It was situated on the west bank of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, about 40 miles front…
Aven · 2. Another name for ON — 2. Another name for ON
Egypt · Prophecies respecting: Destruction of its cities — Prophecies respecting: Destruction of its cities
Pi-Beseth · Prophesied against by Ezekiel — Prophesied against by Ezekiel
Woman · Young: Often taken captive — Young: Often taken captive

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 30:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 30:1-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 30:17

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 30:17

John Gill on Ezekiel 30:17

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 30:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 30:1-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 30:17

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 30:17

John Gill on Ezekiel 30:17

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 30:13-19

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 30:17

Rashi on Ezekiel 30:17