Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 46:26

26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: And afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the dayes of old, saith the LORD .

The former part of this verse is but the same which the Prophet hath often before said. The latter part is a promise for the restauration of Egypt to some degrees of its former prosperity, and Liberty. The determinate time for the fulfilling of this Prophesie is told us, Ezek. 29.13, 14. viz. at the end of forty years; this we are to[illegible: 2 letters] by Civil Historians fell out in the time of Amasis a King of Egypt coaevous with Cyrus, who was overcome by Cyrus his son Camb[illegible: 2 letters]es, who brought Egypt to be a Province belong[illegible: 1 letter]ng to the Medes and Pe[illegible: 1 letter]sians, by the fulfilling of which prophesie the truth both of Ieremiahs and Ezekiels prop[illegible: 1 letter]esies are justified.