Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 29:4

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4. hooks in thy jaws — ( :- ; compare Job 41:1 ; Job 41:2 ). Amasis was the "hook." In the Assyrian sculptures prisoners are represented with a hook in the underlip, and a cord from it held by the king. cause . . . fish . . . stick unto . . . scales —Pharaoh, presuming on his power as if he were God ( Ezekiel 29:3 , "I have made it"), wished to stand in the stead of God as defender of the covenant-people, his motive being, not love to them, but rivalry with Babylon. He raised the siege of Jerusalem, but it was only for a time (compare Ezekiel 29:6 ; Jeremiah 37:5 ; Jeremiah 37:7-10 ); ruin overtook not only them, but himself. As the fish that clung to the horny scales of the crocodile, the lord of the Nile, when he was caught, shared his fate, so the adherents of Pharaoh, lord of Egypt, when he was overthrown by Amasis, should share his fate. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-ezk-29-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/ezk-29-4

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological