◄ Ezekiel 29:14 ►
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Good News Translation
and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,

New Revised Standard Version
and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.

Contemporary English Version
They will once again live in their homeland in southern Egypt. But they will be a weak kingdom

New American Bible
I will restore Egypt’s fortunes, bringing them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. But there it will be a lowly kingdom,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:

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And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:

Pathros

Isaiah 19:22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards them, and heal them.

Jeremiah 46:26 And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.

Context
The Desolation of Egypt
…13For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they had been scattered. 14And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:15It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they shall rule no more over the nations.…
Cross References
Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Jeremiah 44:1
The word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:

Jeremiah 44:15
Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremiah, saying:

Ezekiel 17:14
That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his covenant and observe it.

Ezekiel 30:14
And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria.

Ezekiel 29:13
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