John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 29:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, &c.] Who could eject their king from his kingdom, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy; though he thought no God could, as he boastingly said, before observed: because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel; alluding to the country of Egypt, which abounded with reeds that grew upon the banks of the river Nile, and other rivers. This signifies that either the Egyptians were weak, and could not help the people of Israel when they applied to them; or rather that they were treacherous and deceitful, and would not assist them, according to agreement; and were even pernicious and hurtful to them, as a broken reed; (see <233606>Isaiah 36:6). The Targum renders it, ``the staff of a reed broken.”

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