Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 29:4

4 But I will put hooks into thy chaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers , and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

Thou art secure against all, but God will draw thee out of thy River to thy ruine.

The Allegorie is continued; Fish are drawn out with hooks and lines, and God hath Hooks for this proud Dragon, first Amasis, and next the Babylonian King: The expedition of Amasis in the head of the Cynen[illegible: 1 letter]eans and Graecians, and the event of it is exactly represented in▪ this Hieroglyphick in the Text. Amasis with those Forces mastered Libya, the King thereof applys for help to this Pharaoh, he gathers all the Power of Egypt out of Egypt with him into Cyrene, where he was defeated, lost all, but a few that fled with him, and on this occasion the Egyptians rebelled against him; now this short history opens the parable. The first Hook you see in the chaws of this Dragon, this drew him out of his River, i. e. his Kingdom.

These are the people of Egypt, the subjects of this Kingdom.

To adhere to their King in this War.

Both the King, and his Subjects, which made up his Army go out of the Rivers, leave Egypt, and march into Cyrene (which was part of that Kingdom now called Barca) with their King, as if they had been litt[illegible: 1 letter]e Fishes on the back of a mighty one. Thus far the Emblem, the rest follows.

Marginal references: Isa. 37.29. chap. 38.4.