Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 29:10

10 Behold therefore, I am against thee, and against thy rivers , and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste , and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Aethiopia .

Chap. 28. verse 22. let. f.

Verse 4. let. y.

Verse 9. let. t.

Thus as a common name, we, and the French, and others read it, but some account it a proper name of a Town or City, called Magdalum, for ought I know, the old Migdol. Exod. 14.2. and Num. 33.7, 8. 'twas on the Red Sea side, North-East of Egypt, from this part unto Syene.

A City on the East of Nilus over against Arabia, saith one, a City that is just below the great chataract or fall of Nilus toward Aethiopia, and such a boundary between Aethiopia, and Egypt, as admits dispute, to which it belongs.

Now, to dispute nothing of this Geography, it seems likely to me, that what we render Aethiopia is not so well, and plainly rendred, for Syene being so near to Aethiopia, we must look some place of Egypt at some greater distance from Syene, than this Aethiopia is, if then 'twere translated the border of Cush, to whom Moses assigns Arabia, Gen. 10.7. Let us suppose then Magdalum instead of the Tower, as one term; Syene on the edge of Aethiopia, as another, and the opposite point on the Red Sea towards Arabia, and then almost all Egypt is comprised herein from North-east to South-east down the Red Sea, thence to the Westward, as far as Aethiopia, and thence up the Nile, as high Northward as Magdalum.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] of [illegible: 1 word].; chap. 3.[illegible: 1 letter]; Heb. [illegible: 1 word]