diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_30:20-26.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_30:20-26.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e726e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_30:20-26.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 30:20–26" +date = "2023-05-30" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel30.20-26) + +This oracle uses the "arm" metaphor to represent military might. It describes +how one of Egypt's arms had been broken before, but now Babylon will come and +break both of Egypt's arms again. Egypt's arm was first broken at the battle of +Carchemish, an Assyrian city north of Israel and west of Babylon. + +This arm was broken again at the siege of Jerusalem when Pharaoh sent an army +to assist Judah, but turned back before there was a major confrontation with +the Babylonians. Egypt's status as a major power thus began to wane and Babylon +took its place as the most powerful nation in the Near East. The final defeat +of Egypt would come later from the Persian empire, but it was as inevitable as +the Lord had said. + +* * * + +It is not by their own strength and weakness that empires rise and fall, but by +Your will.