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\u201cO mortal, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; it has not been bound up to be healed nor firmly bandaged to make it strong enough to grasp the sword\u201d (verse 21).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The last six verses of chapter 30 are an orthopedic surgeon's dream. God talks about breaking Pharaoh\u2019s arm multiple times and strengthening the arm of Babylonia in return.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is there this focus on breaking Pharaoh\u2019s arm? The commentators are pretty unanimous in explaining that this is in reference to the earlier defeat of Egypt foretold by Jeremiah and then confirmed by the weakness of Egypt in II Kings 24:7:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The king of Egypt did not venture out of his country again, for the king of Babylon had seized all the land that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Wadi of Egypt to the River Euphrates.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If Egypt\u2019s arm is broken, then Babylonia\u2019s arm is strengthened.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This explanation does not address why the image here is about breaking Pharaoh\u2019s arms. Perhaps the broken arm image is not specifically for the arm itself, but for the inability to carry a sword as referenced at the end of the verse. The sword is connected to the sword of destruction that Ezekiel discusses in chapter 21: \u201cI will draw My sword from its sheath, and I will wipe out from you both the righteous and the wicked\u201d (verse 8). God grants his sword of punishment and destruction to different enemies over the centuries. Egypt controlled this weapon at different points during the years of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Now, however, God is taking that sword away and handing it to someone else. God is not content with simply passing the sword on. Egypt needs to be punished and also needs to no longer have the ability to wield that sword again. By breaking Pharaoh\u2019s arm, God removes the ability for Egypt to cause trouble for Judah in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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One could be forgiven for assuming, after reading many passages in the Bible, that there is an easy correlation between worldly success \u2014 especially in matters like war \u2014 and divine favor. Again and again, God\u2019s being \u201cwith Israel\u201d is portrayed as a guarantee that they will prevail over their enemies. Kings go to prophets to seek the divine imprimatur for their plans of attack. This raises a difficult question, though \u2014 if it is true that Israel prevails when God wills it and is defeated when God decrees their defeat, what are we to make of those who triumph over the Israelites? Often the characters who enjoy such triumph are apparently quite wicked, and surely we are not meant to assume that they enjoy God\u2019s favor. But if we cannot assume so, then the simple equation between success and righteousness would seem to be broken.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some passages in the Bible seem to suggest that God specifically employs <\/span>wicked<\/span><\/i> actors to carry out divine justice. In Ezekiel 30, for instance, we hear of God\u2019s judgment against the Egyptians and their Pharaoh: \u201cA sword shall pierce Egypt, And Nubia shall be seized with trembling, when men fall slain in Egypt And her wealth is seized and her foundations are overthrown\u201d (30:4:). The instrument of this havoc, though, will not be the Israelites: \u201cI will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,\u201d Ezekiel declares, \u201cthrough King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon\u201d (30:10).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the same Babylonian king who destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem, and who in turn (in the Book of Daniel) was punished with madness for his failure to acknowledge the God of Israel as the true sovereign of the world. It is to such men as Nebuchadnezzar that the verse in Proverbs can be applied: \u201cThe LORD made everything for a purpose, even the wicked for an evil day\u201d (Proverbs 16:4). Although the King of Babylon may think his success in Egypt is a sign of his own gods\u2019 favor, the text from Proverbs suggests that he and other such men are victorious precisely because they are wicked.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Such thoughts may be comforting, to the extent that they promise that those who have the unwelcome distinction of serving as the instruments of God\u2019s justice will themselves be given their just deserts one day. More disturbing, perhaps, is the pall that is cast over our own moments of success. If the simple equation between triumph and righteousness is no longer possible, might it be that there are also moments, in the midst of our triumphs, when <\/span>we<\/span><\/i> are the wicked to whom the work of the evil day is allotted? 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Our chapter is divided into two parts. Vs. 1-19 forecast Egypt\u2019s doomsday, and 20-26, introduced by its own chronological information (\u201cIn the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month\u201d), narrow the focus to a contrast between Egypt\u2019s vulnerability and Babylon\u2019s invincibility.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Arguably, v.8, \u201cWhen I set fire to Egypt and all who help her (`<\/em><\/span>ozreha<\/span><\/em>) are broken,\u201d captures the essence of the prophecy of doom. I would like to focus here on the helpers. The exegetes, medieval and modern, offer no identification of who they might be. Moshe Greenberg defined them as \u201callies\u201d and drew our attention to 1 Kings 20:16 (32 kings who were \u201chelpers\u201d of Ben Hadad) and Isaiah 31:3, which refers to Egypt itself as a \u201chelper\u201d (`<\/em><\/span>ozer<\/span><\/em>) (Anchor Bible: <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 623).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I would like to offer an original suggestion that sharpens our understanding of the broad range of the notion of help. There are numerous appearances throughout Tanakh of forms of the noun `<\/em><\/span>ozer<\/span><\/em> in specifically military contexts. Furthermore, Ugaritic, a Northwest Semitic language kindred to Hebrew, has a noun <\/span>gh-z-r<\/span><\/i>, cognate with Hebrew\u2019s <\/span>`-z-r<\/span><\/i>, which translates as \u201chero\u201d (biblical <\/span>gibor<\/span><\/em>). (The same exchange of <\/span>ghayin<\/span><\/em> for `<\/em><\/span>ayin<\/span><\/em> occurs in Arabic, which accounts for the biblical Hebrew `Azah <\/em>appearing as Ghaza in Arabic.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I would suggest, then, that such appearances of \u201chelpers\u201d should be interpreted as military auxiliaries. 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30:21 \u201c\u2018Man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and look, it has not been bound up to heal, to put a dressing on it to bind it for strengthening it to grasp a sword.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophecy is a striking instance of the rhetorical strategy of resuscitating a dead metaphor. Repeatedly, \u201carm\u201d is a term for \u201cstrength\u201d or \u201cpower.\u201d That is what it means here, but the literal sense of the word becomes salient: the arm is broken, it has been given no medical attention to heal it; dangling broken, it can no longer grasp a sword; then the other arm is broken, and the damaged one is broken a second time. The devastation of Egypt as a military power in this way is made painfully vivid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. The Day of the LORD<\/em>. When is the day of the LORD? In what does it consist? Different prophecies suggest different answers. Add this chapter to the ones we\u2019ve already encountered (Isaiah 13 for instance) and to the ones we will read in the future.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. There is a date<\/em>. The fourth prophecy about Egypt carries the date 7 Nissan, in the 11th year of Jehoiachin\u2019s exile. The destruction of Jerusalem is a few short months away, at the end of the summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. With a strong hand and an outstretched arm<\/em>. If verses 21-25 seem to echo the \u201cstrong hand and outstretched arm\u201d motif of the Exodus - it\u2019s not a coincidence...<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Ezekiel 30","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"30","chapter_main_number":"482","date":"20270705","wall_id":"482"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":"","link_teaser":"","listen_link":"","other_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/74457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}