23And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. …
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-26)This short prophecy of the weakening of the power of Egypt was delivered about the time that the army of the Egyptians, which attempted to raise the siege of Jerusalem, was frustrated in its enterprises, and returned re infectâ—without accomplishing their purpose ; whereupon the king of Babylon renewed the siege and carried his point. The kingdom of Egypt was very ancient, and had been for many ag…
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