Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 30:17

"The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity." — Ezekiel 30:17 (ASV)

Of Aven and of Pi-beseth.— Aven is the same as On (Genesis 41:45, 50) and as Bethshemesh (House of the Sun; Jeremiah 43:13), the Heliopolis of the Greeks, so called because from the remotest times it was a chief seat of the worship of the sun. The vowel points are slightly changed from On to make Aven, nothingness, often used of idols. Pi-beseth, on the monuments Pi-Pasht—so called from the cat-headed goddess there worshipped—is Bubastis, situated on the canal leading from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile towards Suez.