Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 44:30

30 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon his enemy that sought his life p.

Pharaoh was a name common to all the Egyptian Kings, as may be learned from Gen. 12.15. and 41.1. Exod. 1.8 11. but they had besides that name another peculiar to them, whether this Hophrah was Vaphres or Apries, is not much material, nor is there any certainty when this Prophesie was fulfilled. Whether Pharaoh Hophra were (as Herodotus saith) slain by Amasis, one of his Subjects who rebelled against him and slew him (as the aforementioned Author tells us) or Nebuchadnezzar who Iosephus saith came about five years after he had taken Ierusalem, and over-ran Egypt, and slew this Pharaoh Hophra, whose overthrow was a certain sign of the Iews destruction, it being not like that the King of Babylon should spare these Iews who had [illegible: 2 letters]ed to this King of Egypt for shelter, considering also that the Iews had slain Gedaliah his Deputy Governour in Iudea. How God delivered Zedekiah into the hand of the King of Babylon, we read chap. 9. Here now ends the story of these Iews that had fled into Egypt.