Eze 3:18, 20, 32:2-9, Mat 18:6-7, Act 20:26-27 | TSK | STEP

And I.To represent the power, rapaciousness, and cruelty of Pharaoh, he had been compared to a fierce young lion, and also to an immense, overgrown sea-monster, or crocodile; and here it is predicted that God would cast a net over him, by which many companies of people should drag him out of his rivers, and cast him into the open field, mountains, valleys, etc., to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey; that is, his ruin would be complete, and attended with terrible miseries to the Egyptians, and afford a large booty to their enemies.

water.

Ex 7:17; Isa 34:3,7; Re 14:20; 16:6

the land.Egypt, so called because interspersed by numerous canals, and overflowed annually by the Nile.

wherein thou swimmest. or, of thy swimming.

put thee out. or, extinguish thee.

Job 18:5,6; Pr 13:9

I will cover the heaven.Destroy the empire.

30:3,18; Ex 10:21-23; Isa 13:10; 34:4; Jer 13:16; Joe 2:2,31; 3:15

Am 8:9; Mt 24:29; Re 6:12,13

make.Overwhelm the dependent states.

the sun.The king.

the moon.The queen, or some state less than the kingdom.

bright lights of heaven. Heb. lights of the light in heaven.

Ge 1:14

dark. Heb. them dark.

Pr 20:20

set darkness upon.Involve the whole land in desolation and woe.

vex. Heb. provoke to anger, or grief.

Re 11:18; 18:10-15

when.

29:12; 30:23,26; Jer 25:15-25

Matthew 18:6-7

offend.

Ps 105:15; Zec 2:8; Mr 9:42; Lu 17:1,2; Ac 9:5; Ro 14:13-15,21

Ro 15:1-3; 1Co 8:9-13; 10:32,33; 2Th 1:6-9

little.

10,14; Zec 13:7; Lu 17:2

that a.This mode of punishment appears to have obtained in Syria as well as in Greece, especially in cases of parricide. That it was customary in Greece we learn from Suidas, in [hyperbolon lithon,] and the scholiast on the Equites of Aristophanes: [Hotan gar katara tinos baros apo ton trachelos kremannumi .] "When a person was drowned, they hung a weight about his neck."

unto.

Ge 13:7; 1Sa 2:17,22-25; 2Sa 12:14; Lu 17:1; Ro 2:23,24

1Ti 5:14,15; 6:1; Tit 2:5,8; 2Pe 2:2

for.

Mr 13:7; Ac 1:16; 1Co 11:19; 2Th 2:3-12; 1Ti 4:1-3; 2Ti 3:1-5

2Ti 4:3,4; Jude 1:4

but.

13:41,42; 23:13-28; 26:24; Joh 17:12; Ac 1:18-20; 2Pe 2:3,15-17

Jude 1:11-13; Re 2:14,15,20-23; 19:20,21