Bible Strands
Ezekiel 29:2
“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks to Ezekiel in the tenth year of the exile, on the twelfth day of the tenth month. The command directs the prophet to confront Pharaoh and the nation of Egypt.
The words — The text uses שִׂ֣ים (sim) meaning “set” and פָּנֶ֔י/ךָ (pa.Nei./kha) meaning “your face,” forming the literal instruction to direct one’s attention toward a specific target.
The thread — The identical posture of directed prophecy appears in Ezekiel 6:2, while Jeremiah 44:30 and Jeremiah 46:2 record God’s subsequent judgments against Egypt’s rulers without repeating the command idiom.
Why it lands — The text states a divine order to confront political power directly, requiring the reader to recognize that prophetic speech precedes and frames historical judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 6:2 “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
- Jeremiah 44:30 This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”
- Jeremiah 46:2 concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
- Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
- Isaiah 20:1 Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,
- Jeremiah 9:25 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—
- Jeremiah 25:18 to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- Jeremiah 43:8 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:
- Ezekiel 20:46 “Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
- Ezekiel 21:2 “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel