Ezekiel 30

Ezekiel 30:5

Lybia] Heb. Phut, or Phuth, or Put. These Lybians were of the same race with the Ethiopians, Gen. X. 6. 1 Chron. I. 6. Seated in Africa, to the West of Egypt.

Lybia] These were in Africa, and came of Lud, the sonne of Mizraim, and grandchild of Cham, Gen. X 6, 13. Ger. XLVI. 9. The Lydians in Asia, or Anatolia came of Lud the sonne of Shem, Gen. X. 22. Esay LXVI. 19. See the Annotations on Ezek. XXX. 5.

Ezekiel 30:18

Tehaphnehes] Or, Tahapanes, or Tachapanes, Tapanhes, or Tachpanches, and the same, as it seemes in a contracted forme Hanes, or Chanes, Esay XXX. 4. a Prime Citie in Egypt: taking likely its name from Tahpenes Queene of Egypt, 1 Kings XI. 19, 20. Seated not farre from Pelusium; whence termed by the Greeks and Latines Daphnae Pelusiacae. See Jer. II. 16. Here Jremy was, chap. XLIII. 8.

Ezek. XLVIII. 8,—22. In this Visionary Description, The Portion or holy Oblation of Land, for the Priests, and the Sanctuary; for the Levites; for the Citie, and Suburbs; for the Prince; was all at most no greater or biger then the several Portions for each of the other Tribes. And therefore in that Draught of mine set forth by my learned and industrious friend Master Thomas Fuller in his Pisgah-sight of Palestine, V. Book. page 189. I desire to be rightly so understood, and no otherwise.

The said Draught is represented there in a far larger Proportion. But the only Reason was, That so there might be roome enough for the setting down of the several Situations, and Limits among themselves, of the Priests Portion, and of the Sanctuarie in the midst of it; And of the Levites Portion by themselves; And of the Citie Jerusalem, and Suburbs, of it, by themselves; And of the Princes Portion, lying, and guarding, as it were, all the former, at both Ends, East, and West. The true quantity of all this, in relation to the other Tribes, being no other then I have formerly expressed.