New International Version
Ezekiel 29:2
2“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Ezekiel 29:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt.
Context of Ezekiel 29:2
1In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. 3Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile belongs to me; I made it for myself.” 4But I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales. I will pull you out from among your streams, with all the fish sticking to your scales.
Read all of Ezekiel 29Ezekiel 29:2 word by word
בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שִׂ֣ים פָּנֶ֔יךָ עַל־פַּרְעֹ֖ה מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהִנָּבֵ֣א עָלָ֔יו וְעַל־מִצְרַ֖יִם כֻּלָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 29:2
- Ezekiel 6:2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them
- Ezekiel 20:46“Son of man, set your face toward the south; preach against the south and prophesy against the forest of the southland.
- Ezekiel 21:2“Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel
- Ezekiel 25:2“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
- Ezekiel 28:21“Son of man, set your face against Sidon; prophesy against her
- Jeremiah 44:30This is what the Lord says: ‘I am going to deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who want to kill him, just as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who wanted to kill him.’ ”
- Ezekiel 30:1The word of the Lord came to me:
- Isaiah 18:1Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush,
- Isaiah 20:1In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it—
- Jeremiah 9:25“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—
- Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse—as they are today;
- Jeremiah 43:8In Tahpanhes the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 46:2Concerning Egypt: This is the message against the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
- Joel 3:19But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- Zechariah 14:18If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 29:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt - This was Pharaoh-hophra or Pharaoh-apries, whom we have so frequently met with in the prophecies of Jeremiah, and much of whose history has been given in the notes.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-21The seventh and final message of judgment against the nations targets Egypt, an old enemy and ally of Israel. This message is the longest and, like the one against Tyre, it addresses both Egypt and its ruler. Egypt often tempted Israel and Judah to turn away from their loyalty to the Lord. Soon after leaving Egypt, Israel fell into the trap of Egypt's idolatry. Egypt led Judah to rely on chariots and horses instead of the Lord, but Egypt was unreliable…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-21This is the last of the world kingdoms against which Ezekiel's prophecies are directed, and occupies the largest space in them, namely, the next four chapters. Though farther off than Tyre, it exercised a more powerful influence on Israel. 2. Pharaoh--a common name of all the kings of Egypt, meaning "the sun"; or, as others say, a "crocodile," which was worshipped in parts of Egypt (compare Eze 29:3). Hophra or Apries was on the throne at this time. His…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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