Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Reading for April 18th

Read Ezekiel 32.17-32 Ezekiel's seventh oracle concerning Egypt.
In verse 17 in the twelfth year ... the first month ... the fifteenth day: April 27, 586 BCE.
In verse 18 God instructs Ezekiel to wail for Egypt as its people descend into the underworld.
In verses 19-32 Egypt will join the nations that have been destroyed.
Assyria was conquered by Babylon and Media during the period 627-609 BCE.
Elam was destroyed by the Assyrians in the mid seventh century BCE.
Meshech and Tubal: two unidentified kingdoms in Asia Minor that perhaps were taken by Assyria.
Edom was conquered by Babylon.
The princes of the north: probably the Phoenicians.
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