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2. set--stir up. GESENIUS translates, "arm."
Egyptians against the Egyptians--Lower against Upper: and Saitic
against both. (See
Isa 3:10).
NEWTON refers it to the civil wars between Apries
and Amasis at the time of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion; also between
Tachos, Nectanebus, and the Mendesians, just before Ochus subdued
Egypt.
kingdom against kingdom--The Septuagint has "nome against nome";
Egypt was divided into forty-two nomes or districts.
JFB.
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