Ezekiel 30:14

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.

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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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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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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Or, Tanis.

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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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Verse 14. I will make Pathros desolate] See the preceding chapter, Eze 29:14.

Zoan] Tanis, the ancient capital of Egypt.

No.] Diospolis, or Thebes, the city of Jupiter.

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(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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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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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:

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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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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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)

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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.

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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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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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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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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and I shall execute punishments in No [This is] Alexandria.

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