19:2Isaiah 19:2

Isaiah 19:2 belongs to a prophecy concerning Egypt, a great part of which, including its predicted events, has already been fulfilled.ST Aug 1, 1911 It foretells Egypt's ruin through internal conflict, with Egyptians set against Egyptians to fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour, city against city and kingdom against kingdom, and this discord brought about the nation's decline.ST Jul 31, 1884+2 This turning of the people against one another was fulfilled at the time described as the present, following Egypt's failure as a nation to turn to God despite earlier testimony and judgments intended to lead its people to seek Him.ST Dec 11, 1893

The foretold internal division belongs to a larger prophecy that Egypt would be invaded, conquered, spoiled, fall into the hands of strangers forever, become the basest of the kingdoms, and renounce idolatry.RH Nov 11, 1862 That prophecy was fulfilled through more than twenty-four centuries in which Egypt was invaded and subdued by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, afterward subjected by the Persians under Cambyses and by the Macedonians under Alexander the Great, then governed for nearly three centuries by the Ptolemies, then brought under the Roman yoke about thirty years before the Christian era.RH Nov 11, 1862 It continued as Egypt was then ruled successively by Saracens, Mamelukes and Turks, deprived of its natural proprietors, ruled by foreigners, and with its idols cut off.RH Nov 11, 1862 The prophecy recognizes that Egypt's destruction as a habitable land would follow the drying up of its waters.RH Sep 22, 1868 The prophecy concerning Egypt refers to the preaching of the Gospel in Egypt and Assyria in New Testament times.ST Sep 29, 1909