Ezekiel 30:14

“And I will make Pathros desolate, &c.] A country in Egypt; (see Gill on “<262914>Ezekiel 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, (<041322>Numbers 13:22 <197812>Psalm 78:12,43). 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. Shawf545 says: and I will execute judgment in No. The Vulgate Latin version renders it Alexandria; and so does the…”

“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.”

“Zoan - Tanis, a city and nome of Lower Egypt Numbers 13:22. See the marginal reference note. No - Diospolis. See the marginal reference note. return to 'Top of Page'”

“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. Ezekiel 30:15”

“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).”

“Pathros: Eze 29:14 Zoan: or, Tanis, Num 13:22; Psa 78:12, Psa 78:43; Isa 19:11, Isa 30:4 will execute: Jer 46:25; Nah 3:8 Ezekiel 30:15”