Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.
Pride uttered aloud, The river is mine, I made it, is enough to ruin a whole nation. God will strip Egypt bare: the sword cuts man and beast, the land spills out its people into desolation, and those who thought they held the balance of power become contemptible. But He does not leave them forever; restoration follows after forty years of waste.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 29:8-16
Egypt's king boasts the Nile is his own making, a pride God will break. I read 'sword' as the agents of war: first the civil tumult that unseated this king, then Nebuchadnezzar's invasion, which stripped the land of man and beast alike, some by the blade, some seized for an army's provision.
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a sword--Nebuchadnezzar's army (Eze 29:19). Also Amasis and the Egyptian revolters who after Pharaoh-hophra's discomfiture in Cyrene dethroned and strangled him, having defeated him in a battle fought at Memphis [JUNIUS].