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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 30:18
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, &c.] The same with Hanes in (<233004>Isaiah 30:4) and Tahapanes in (<240216>Jeremiah 2:16) and Tahpanhes, (<244307>Jeremiah 43:7-9), it was a royal seat of the kings of Egypt: there was in Solomon’s time a queen of Egypt of this name, and perhaps it might be so called from her, (<111119>1 Kings 11:19,20). It is generally thought to be the Daphne of Pelusium, it being near that city; though Junius takes it to be a place in another part of Egypt, at a great distance, which Herodotusf557 calls Tahcompso, an island encompassed by the Nile; and by Ptolemyf558 called Metacompso: now at this place the day should be darkened; or should “restrain”f559, as it may be rendered; that is, its light; it should be a calamitous and mournful time with the inhabitants of it: when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt; the yokes they put upon the necks of others, who now should be freed from them: or, “the sceptres of Egypt”, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; the regalia of their kings, which might lie in this place; it being a royal seat where Pharaoh had a house, as appears from (<244309>Jeremiah 43:9): and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her; all that grandeur and magnificence which appeared in the courts of the kings of Egypt in this place: as for her, a cloud shall cover her; as for this city, a cloud of calamity shall cover it, so as its glory shall not be seen. The Targum is, “a king with his army shall cover her as a cloud ascends and covers the earth:” and her daughters shall go into captivity; which may be taken either in a literal sense for the daughters of the inhabitants of this place, which must be a great affliction to their tender parents, to have them forced away by rude soldiers, and carried captive into distant lands; or in a figurative sense, for the villages and the inhabitants of them round about this city; it being usual to represent a city as a mother, and its villages as daughters; and so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi interpret it.
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