Ezekiel 29:3
ContextNETBible | Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against 1 you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster 2 lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” 3 |
XREF | De 8:17; Ps 74:13,14; Ps 76:7; Isa 10:13,14; Isa 27:1; Isa 51:9; Jer 44:30; Eze 28:2; Eze 28:22; Eze 29:9; Eze 29:10; Eze 32:2; Da 4:30,31; Na 1:6; Re 12:3,4,16,17; Re 13:2,4,11; Re 16:13; Re 20:2 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8. 2 tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew 3 sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44. |