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Eze 29:2 — Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

set		Eze 6:2; Eze 20:46; Eze 21:2; Eze 25:2; Eze 28:21,22
Pharaoh		"This was Pharaoh-hophra, or Apries, who, Herodotus informs us, agreeably to the character given him by the prophet, ""proudly and wickedly boasted of having established his kingdom so securely, that it was not in the power of any God to dispossess him of it."" Jer 44:30"
against all		Eze 30-32; Isa 18;19:1-17;20; Jer 9:25,26; Jer 25:18,19; Jer 43:8-13; Jer 46:2-16; Joe 3:19; Zec 14:18,19

Correlating Passages

set

	Eze 6:2	Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
	Eze 20:46	Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
	Eze 21:2	Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
	Eze 25:2	Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
	Eze 28:21	Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
	Eze 28:22	And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

Pharaoh

Jer 44:30

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

against all

	Eze 30:1	The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
	Eze 30:2	Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
	Eze 30:3	For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
	Eze 30:4	And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
	Eze 30:5	Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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	Isa 18:1	Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
	Isa 18:2	That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
	Isa 18:3	All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
	Isa 18:4	For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
	Isa 18:5	For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches.
	Isa 18:6	They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
	Isa 18:7	In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
	Isa 19:1	The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
	Isa 19:2	And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.
	Isa 19:3	And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
	Isa 19:4	And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
	Isa 19:5	And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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	Isa 20:1	In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
	Isa 20:2	At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
	Isa 20:3	And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
	Isa 20:4	So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
	Isa 20:5	And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
	Isa 20:6	And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
	Jer 9:25	Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;
	Jer 9:26	Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.
	Jer 25:18	[To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;
	Jer 25:19	Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
	Jer 43:8	Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
	Jer 43:9	Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
	Jer 43:10	And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
	Jer 43:11	And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, [and deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to the sword.
	Jer 43:12	And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
	Jer 43:13	He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
	Jer 46:2	Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
	Jer 46:3	Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
	Jer 46:4	Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.
	Jer 46:5	Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD.
	Jer 46:6	Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
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	Joe 3:19	Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
	Zec 14:18	And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that [have] no [rain]; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
	Zec 14:19	This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ezekiel 29:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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