The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
The daughter of Egypt is addressed in the prophecy against Egypt, one of the prophecies against the kingdoms surrounding Israel in which their doom is pronounced. It is a prophecy concerning Egypt given in connection with Jeremiah's going into Egypt. It stands in the part of Jeremiah after chapter 20 where the prophecies are not placed in chronological order. In chronological order it stands after Jeremiah 47 at the close of the sequence running through Jeremiah 40 to 45.
The displacement came when the manuscript rolls were gathered into one book. It makes no change in the teaching. The chronology is made clear by the chapter itself.
It means Egypt shall be confounded and put to shame and be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. It means falling before Nebuchadnezzar, the mighty conqueror, king of Babylon, who would invade and subdue Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar would set his standard in Egypt's capital.
This was foretold though Egypt was ancient and powerful and most defensible. It was bounded by the Red Sea and desert and able to defend its river mouths and drown invaders by the Nile. Yet Egypt would be invaded, conquered, and spoiled. It would fall into the hands of strangers forever, become the basest of kingdoms, and give up idols and images.
Its history for more than twenty-four centuries shows the completion. First Babylon conquered, then Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Saracens, Mamelukes and Turks. No native prince has ruled, with oppression, poverty and waste, and with idols ceasing and rivers drying. The verse is among prophecies describing the northern power that threatens Egypt. The king of the north is identified as the dominant power north of Palestine, understood as the successor to Babylon, rather than by possession of any particular European territory.
The daughter of Egypt is addressed in the prophecy against Egypt, one of the prophecies against the kingdoms surrounding Israel in which their doom is pronounced. It is a prophecy concerning Egypt given in connection with Jeremiah's going into Egypt. It stands in the part of Jeremiah after chapter 20 where the prophecies are not placed in chronological order. In chronological order it stands after Jeremiah 47 at the close of the sequence running through Jeremiah 40 to 45.
The displacement came when the manuscript rolls were gathered into one book. It makes no change in the teaching. The chronology is made clear by the chapter itself.
It means Egypt shall be confounded and put to shame and be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. It means falling before Nebuchadnezzar, the mighty conqueror, king of Babylon, who would invade and subdue Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar would set his standard in Egypt's capital.
This was foretold though Egypt was ancient and powerful and most defensible. It was bounded by the Red Sea and desert and able to defend its river mouths and drown invaders by the Nile. Yet Egypt would be invaded, conquered, and spoiled. It would fall into the hands of strangers forever, become the basest of kingdoms, and give up idols and images.
Its history for more than twenty-four centuries shows the completion. First Babylon conquered, then Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Saracens, Mamelukes and Turks. No native prince has ruled, with oppression, poverty and waste, and with idols ceasing and rivers drying. The verse is among prophecies describing the northern power that threatens Egypt. The king of the north is identified as the dominant power north of Palestine, understood as the successor to Babylon, rather than by possession of any particular European territory.