Ezekiel 29:2

God commands Ezekiel to set his face against Pharaoh and prophesy against all Egypt. The mighty empire is summoned before the judgment of God.

Cross-references · 15

• Ezek 6:2“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
• Jer 44:30Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.’”
• Jer 46:2–16Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
• Ezek 25:2Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:
• Ezek 30:1Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
• Isa 18:1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
• Zech 14:18–19If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.
• Jer 25:18–19Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;
• Ezek 21:2“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.
• Jer 9:25–26“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
• Ezek 28:21–22Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
• Ezek 20:46“Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
• Isa 20:1–6In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
• Joel 3:19Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
• Jer 43:8–13Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

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