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Ezekiel 29:14

Ezekiel 29:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Into the land of Pathros. (For the land of their habitation, read, with the Revised Version, the land of their birth.) (For Pathres, see , ; 1 Chronicles 1:12; ; .

) Its position is somewhat doubtful, but the balance of evidence is in favor of placing it in the Thebaid of Upper Egypt, which Herodotus (2. 4, 15) describes as the original seat of the Egyptian monarchy.

Its name may be connected with the Pathyrite name in which Thebes was situated (Pliny, 'Hist. Nat.,' ). The LXX. gives the form Pathures, and is followed by the Vulgate, with a slight change, Phathures.

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