Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 30:18

18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkned , when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her : as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

A great, and goodly City of Egypt, Tachapanes, Tachpanes, Tahapanes, Tahpanes, Chanes, and Hanes, Isai. 30.4. are Name[illegible: 1 letter] given it, and this from a Queen of Egypt of that name in Solomon's time, 1 King. 11.19, 20. it stood not far from Sin or Pelusium, and by the Greeks a little softening the Name, call'd Daphne Pelusiaca. 'twas a Royal City, in it Pharaoh had a house, to it many Iews fled, when forbidden of the Lord by the Prophet Ieremy, chap. 44. 'twas one of the first Cities you come to out of the Desert of Sin, and was one of the keys of Egypt.

A night shall come upon it, and such a night of sorrow, as shall grow darker, and darker, till the day, i. e. their day be darkness, or else word for word, Darkness shall be the day, and may bear this sense, shall be more welcome, more useful, more desired, then the day, whose light would discover their flight, which the night concealed.

As into shivers.

The Scepters; for there was one of Pharaoh's houses, and probably, some Scepter, and other Regal Ornaments; or the Bars, which kept Enemies out, and secured the Citizens, and Country, such was this Frontier Town, or, when by giving this strong place into Nebuchadnezzars hand, I shall break the Kingdom of Egypt, that it no more oppress with yokes, i. e. burthens▪

The Beauty, and Goodliness, with which the strength of this City was set out in her Buildings, Towers, Forts.

Shall be buried in her own ruines.

Sorrow by the success of the Chaldaeans against her, compared often to a cloud.

Either Metaphorically, i. e. the Towns, and Villages about her, or literally, her Children, her Daughters only mentioned, because her Sons were destroyed, and slain.

Marginal references: Or, darkness[illegible: 1 letter] the day. Or, restrained.