Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

Bible References

Daughter

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead and obtain [healing] balm,
O Virgin Daughter of Egypt!
In vain you use many medicines;
For you there is no healing or remedy.
Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator,
How blessed will be the one
Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.

She shall

Jeremiah 46:20

“Egypt is a very pretty heifer,
But a horsefly (Babylonia) is coming [against her] out of the north!
Jeremiah 1:15
For, behold, I will call all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north,” says the Lord; “and they will come and each one will set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah [as My judicial act, the consequence of Judah’s deliberate disobedience].