The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
When God comes forth to contend with a provoking people, what can shield them? Egypt shall wail and shriek, for the day of the Lord, dark, terrible, a day of reckoning with all heathen nations, approaches swiftly. The sword of the Chaldeans will come; cities that seemed strong will crumble when their foundations are broken down.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 30:1-19
On is Heliopolis, called here Aven, vanity, because of the vain idolatry practiced there; Phibeseth is Bubastis, where Diana was worshipped in the form of a cat. The young men of both cities will fall by the Chaldean sword, and the rest of their inhabitants shall be carried into captivity.
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Aven means vanity, a jab at On's sun worship; Pi-beseth is Bubastis, notorious for goddess worship, whose granite temple stones still stand. The young men fall by the sword while the women go into captivity, a deliberate contrast showing how completely these cities will be emptied and broken.
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