Horn: Zorobabel; (St. Jerome) Jechonias, who was honoured by Evil-merodac; (Tirinus) or Daniel and Mardochai, with all the nation. --- Month. Thou shalt speak boldly, and they will give credit to thee henceforward. (Calmet) CHAPTER XXIX. Day of vengeance, (Calmet) when the Lord shall judge, (1 Corinthians v. 2.) and Egypt shall fall a prey to the most powerful nation of the Chaldeans. (Worthington) Ethiopia. Hebrew, "Chus," denoting part of Arabia, or rather Ethiopia. Lydia. Hebrew, "Phut," near Egypt. (Calmet) --- These troops were paid. (Haydock) --- Chub, in Mareotis. --- Covenant: the Jews or auxiliaries. Septuagint add, "the Persians and Cretans." (Calmet) --- There were Persians in Africa who followed Hercules. (Pliny, [Natural History?] v. 8.) Messengers; the Chaldeans. (Calmet) --- The Nile was navigable as far as Syene. (St. Jerome) Dry. The canals were obstructed (Calmet) which rendered cavalry useless. (Herodotus ii. 108.) Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, (Calmet) where the idol or bull (Haydock) Apis was fed. (Calmet) --- Here Amasis overcame Apries. (Herodotus ii. 168.) --- The Chaldeans made war on the gods as well as on the people. --- Prince Amasis was tributary to Babylon. Some of this probably regards the times of Cambyses and Ochus. (Usher, the year of the world 3478 and 3653.) (Calmet) See chap. xxix. 14. (Haydock) Taphnis, or Tanis, famous for the miracles of Moses. (Calmet) --- Alexandria. In the Hebrew No, which was the ancient name of that city, which was afterwards rebuilt by Alexander the Great, and from his name called Alexandria. (Challoner) --- Septuagint, "Memphis or Diospolis;" (Calmet) or Thebes, capital of Higher Egypt; (Bochart) though it seems rather a maritime town, Nahum iii. 8. (Calmet) Pelusium. Hebrew Sin, (Haydock) "muddy," has the same import as Greek: pelos. (Calmet) --- The place is now called Damietta. (Haydock) Darkened: war and misery shall ensue. --- Sceptres, by dethroning Apries. --- Pride; overflowing of the Nile. See Jeremias xlix. 19. Year, in which Jerusalem was taken. Pharao lost a battle. His country was afterwards invaded, (Calmet) and his subjects rebelled, ver. 21. (Haydock) --- Part of the kingdom had been already subdued, 4 Kings xxiv. 7. (Worthington) CHAPTER XXX. Year, about a month before the fall of Jerusalem. Assyrian. The ruin of this great empire (Calmet) might have admonished the king of Egypt of his frail condition. (Haydock) --- About thirty-eight years before (Calmet) Ninive had been taken, and its king (Sarac or Chinaladan) slain by his own general, Nabopolassar, and by Astyages, of Media. They divided the empire between them, and the father of Nabuchodonosor fixed his residence at Babylon. (Usher, the year of the world 3378.) --- Cedar. Septuagint, "cypress." --- Top; the king of Ninive. (Calmet) --- Egypt's monarch thought himself invincible; yet would fall like the Assyrians. (Worthington) Roots. Various nations paid tribute to the Assyrians, (St. Jerome; Calmet) while he sent his troops, like rivulets, to keep all in subjection. (Theodoret) I have delivered. Here the time past is put for the future; i.e., I shall deliver. --- The mighty one, &c., viz., Nabuchodonosor, who conquered both the Assyrians and Egyptians; (Challoner) or rather his father, Nabopolassar, subdued the former, ver. 3. (Haydock) Strangers; revolted Assyrians. See Psalm xvii. 46. Branches. The nations continued, but submitted to another master. Pit. The new king would appoint fresh governors. Waters, as if they bewailed his fate. (Calmet) --- Those whom the king of Ninive had exalted, and the people, who wished not to submit to a foreigner, would no doubt lament the slaughtered monarch, new silent (Haydock) in the grave. (Theodoret) Comforted. The ghosts of princes who had been subject to Serac, seeing his fall, bore their own misfortune with greater content. In the grave there is no distinction of master and slave. (Calmet) --- Surviving princes expected some emolument from the change. (Haydock) Arm; those in power. Septuagint, "his seed." Hebrew Zora, (Haydock) means both. Famous king of Assyria, or of Egypt. --- Pharao. (Calmet) ---Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur. (Horace, 1. Sat. 1.) --- Though Egypt be like the most potent kingdoms, it shall likewise fall. (Worthington)