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The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
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Total Economic Collapse
The prophecy describes the complete failure of the Nile, Egypt's lifeblood. Commentators explain this would destroy not only all agriculture ('all the sown fields') but also key industries. One scholar, John Gill, details how the withering of the papyrus reed would have decimated their lucrative paper industry, a major source of wealth and trade. The judgment was designed to be comprehensive and devastating.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The paper reeds - (ערות ‛ârôt). This is not the word which occurs in (Isaiah 18:2), and which, it is supposed,…
19th Century
Anglican
The paper reeds by the brooks. —Better, the meadows by the Nile. And so in the other clauses, the Hebrew word for “brooks” being …
16th Century
Protestant
And the reed and the rush shall wither. He mentions the reed and the rush, because they had an abundance of the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks , &c.] Not at the fountain or origin of the Nile and its s…
God will come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves.
When ungodly people esc…
13th Century
Catholic
The burden of Egypt. In this part, the author threatens the destruction of the Egyptians, describing its manner and order…
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