Jeremiah 46:2-9
1599 Geneva Bible
2 As against Egypt, against the army of [a]Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Perath in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
3 [b]Make ready buckler and shield, and go forth to battle.
4 Make ready the horses, and let the horsemen get up, and stand up with your sallets, furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
5 [c]Wherefore have I seen them afraid, and driven back? for their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.
6 The swift shall not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and [d]fall toward the North by the river Perath.
7 Who is this that cometh up as [e]a flood, whose waters are moved like the rivers?
8 Egypt riseth up like the flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers, and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth: I will destroy the city with them that dwell therein.
9 Come up ye horses, and rage ye chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, [f]the black Moors, and the Libyans that bear the shield, and the Lydians that handle and bend the bow.
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- Jeremiah 46:2 Read 2 Kings 23:29 and 24:7; 2 Chron. 35:20.
- Jeremiah 46:3 He warneth the Egyptians to prepare themselves to war.
- Jeremiah 46:5 The Prophet had this vision of the Egyptians, which should be put to flight by the Babylonians at Carchemish.
- Jeremiah 46:6 The Babylonians shall discomfit them at the river Euphrates.
- Jeremiah 46:7 He derideth the boastings of the Egyptians, who thought by their riches and power to have overcome all the world, alluding to the river Nilus, which at certain times overfloweth the country of Egypt.
- Jeremiah 46:9 For these nations took part with the Egyptians.
Ezekiel 30:5-9
1599 Geneva Bible
5 [a]Ethiopia and Put, and Lud, and all the common people, and Chub, and the men of the land, that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus saith the Lord, They also that maintain Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of [b]Syene shall they fall by the sword, saith the Lord God.
7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
8 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
9 In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Moors afraid, and fear shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh.
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- Ezekiel 30:5 By Put and Lud are meant Africa and Libya.
- Ezekiel 30:6 Which was a strong city of Egypt, Ezek. 29:10.
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