Interpretation Helps for Ezekiel 25, 29-30

• In Ezekiel 25:4, when God talks about giving Ammon to the "people of the East," this is most likely a nomadic tribe, although it could also mean the Babylonians.
• In the descriptive judgment against Egypt in 29:1-5, Pharaoh is called a monster lying among the streams of the Nile. This illustration is based on the fact that crocodiles inhabited the river. When Pharaoh boasts, "The Nile is mine; I made it for myself," he is referring to the irrigation system the Egyptians had dug. When God says he will put "hooks in your jaw," this is the way a crocodile would be captured and taken. When God says, "I will make the fish of your streams stick to your scales," he means the peoples and nations who depended upon Egypt.
• In 29:10 Migdol is in the north and Aswan in the south, so it's talking about the country becoming a ruin and a desolate waste from north to south.
• In 30:5 where it talks about "the people of the covenant land" falling by the sword in Egypt, this is a reference to Jews in Egypt.
• In 30:20-26 where it talks about God breaking Pharaoh's arms, that is symbolism for God's weakening of Pharaoh. The breaking of the first arm may have been Pharaoh Hophra's defeat by Nebuchadnezzar the previous year. The breaking of the second arm would be the Egyptian's upcoming defeat by Babylon.