Words to when the river runs dry book11/19/2022 GESENIUS translates, "arm."Įgyptians against the Egyptians-Lower against Upper: and Saitic against both. The idols poetically are said to be "moved" with fear at the presence of one mightier than even they were supposed to be ( Exodus 12:12, Jeremiah 43:12 ).Ģ. BUNSEN observes, The title of their kings runs thus: "Lord of Upper and lower Egypt." "Egypt," in Hebrew, Misraim, plural form, to express the two regions of Egypt. cloud-( Psalms 104:3, 18:10 ).Ĭome into Egypt-to inflict vengeance. answering to 718 B.C., when Sethos usurped his throne. Thus the dissensions referred to ( Isaiah 19:2 ) allude to the time of the withdrawal of the Ethiopians from Lower Egypt, probably not without a struggle, especially between 722-715 B.C., answering to 718 B.C., when Sethos usurped the throne and entered on the contest with the military caste, by the aid of the town populations: when the Saitic dynasty was another cause of division. That Assyria was in Isaiah's mind appears from the way in which it is joined with Israel and Egypt in the worship of Jehovah ( Isaiah 19:24 Isaiah 19:25 ). Probably, therefore, the Assyrian invasion of Egypt under Sargon, when Judah was the ally of Assyria, and Hezekiah had not yet refused tribute as he did in the beginning of Sennacherib's reign, is meant. In Isaiah 19:1, the invasion of Egypt is represented as caused by "the Lord" and in Isaiah 19:17, "Judah" is spoken of as "a terror to Egypt," which it could hardly have been by itself. But the time referred to is much earlier than that of Psammetichus. To the divisions at this last time, GESENIUS refers Isaiah 19:2 and Psammetichus, Isaiah 19:4, "a cruel lord." The dissensions of the ruling castes are certainly referred to. A third native dynasty was at Sais, in the west of Lower Egypt to this at a later period belonged Psammetichus, the first who admitted Greeks into Egypt and its armies he was one of the dodecarchy, a number of petty kings between whom Egypt was divided, and by aid of foreign auxiliaries overcame the rest, 670 B.C. while the Ethiopians retained Upper Egypt, with Thebes as its capital, under Tirhakah. On his withdrawal, Sethos, one of the priestly caste, became supreme, having Tanis ("Zoan") or else Memphis as his capital, 718 B.C. Sevechus (called So, the ally of Hoshea, 2 Kings 17:4 ), retired from Lower Egypt on account of the resistance of the priests and perhaps also, as the Assyrians threatened Lower Egypt. Egypt had been held by an Ethiopian dynasty, Sabacho, Sevechus, or Sabacho II, and Tirhakah, for forty or fifty years. The nineteenth and twentieth chapters are connected, but with an interval between. Meeting at the same throne of grace, and serving with each other in the same business of religion, should end all disputes, and unite the hearts of believers to each other in holy love. They shall be owned together by him they shall all share in one and the same blessing. The Gentile nations shall not only unite with each other in the gospel fold under Christ, the great Shepherd, but they shall all be united with the Jews. Let the broken-hearted and afflicted, whom the Lord has wounded, and thus taught to return to, and call upon him, take courage for He will heal their souls, and turn their sorrowing supplications into joyful praises. Christ, the great Altar, who sanctifies every gift, shall be owned, and the gospel sacrifices of prayer and praise shall be offered up. Where the sun was worshipped, a place infamous for idolatry, even there shall be a wonderful reformation. So many Jews shall come to Egypt, that they shall soon fill five cities. Converting grace, by changing the heart, changes the language for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. At a time which was to come, the Egyptians shall speak the holy language, the Scripture language not only understand it, but use it. Verses 18-25 The words, "In that day," do not always refer to the passage just before. He renders sinners afraid of those whom they have despised and oppressed and the Lord of hosts will make the workers of iniquity a terror to themselves, and to each other and every object around a terror to them. The Egyptians were renowned for wisdom and science yet the Lord would give them up to their own perverse schemes, and to quarrel, till their land would be brought by their contests to become an object of contempt and pity. The Egyptians will be given over into the hand of one who shall rule them with rigour, as was shortly after fulfilled. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure but evil pursues sinners, and will speedily overtake them, except they repent. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. Verses 1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. (1-17) Its deliverance, and the conversion of the people.
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