Prophecy Against Egypt
1. What exactly is the 12th day of the 10th month of the 10th year?
2. What is significant about the symbolic language of the hook in Pharaoh’s jaws and the fish that stick to his scales; what does this represent?
3. What does it mean when it says, that Egypt was a staff of reed to the house of Israel?
4. How did Israel take their hand, and how did Egypt snap and tear their shoulders, and broke and wrenched their hips?
5. What else was Egypt guilty of; and what was the punishment decreed against them and how was it ever fulfilled in Egypt’s history?
6. How is Egypt’s punishment similar to Israel’s and did the end result of their punishment also been fully realized in their history?
7. What is the first day of the first month of the 27th year; what is this a reference to?
8. Why does the text say that Nebuchadnezzar made no profit from capturing Tyre, explain?
9. Translate the word “horn” in vs. 21, what does this word mean and what is it a reference to?
10. Ch. 30 starts off by announcing the doom of Egypt, but then mentions other nations in vs. 5; why does it include these other nations, and who are the “children of the covenant land”?
11. Why is Ethiopia described as being “complacent”?
12. Describe who or what these names are: Noph, Pathros, Zoan, No, Sin, Aven, Pi-beseth and Tehaphnehes?
13. What is the 7th day of the 1st month of the 11th year; what is this a reference to?
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