translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET study note

text: In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament , 240-44.


text: Compare Isa 36:6 .


text: This may refer to a site in the Egyptian Delta which served as a refuge for Jews ( Jer 44:1; 46:14 ).


text: Syene is known today as Aswan.


text: In Ezek 4:4-8 it was said that the house of Judah would suffer forty years.


text: April 26, 571 b.c .


text: Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c . map For location see Map1-A2 ; Map2-G2 ; Map4-A1 ; JP3-F3 ; JP4-F3 .