Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 19:2
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Isaiah19:2
2. set--stir up. Gesenius translates, "arm."
Egyptians against the Egyptians--Lower against Upper: and Saitic against both. (See Is 3:10). Newton refers it to the civil wars between Apries and Amasis at the time of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion; also between Tachos, Nectanebus, and the Mendesians, just before Ochus subdued Egypt.
kingdom against kingdom--The Septuagint has "nome against nome"; Egypt was divided into forty-two nomes or districts.
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