5 Cush and Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.
5 Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya,
5 And Ethiopia, Put, Lud, Arabia, Libya - all of Egypt's old allies - killed right along with them.
5 "Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword."
5 Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all Arabia, and all their other allies will be destroyed in that war.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 30:5
Commentary on Ezekiel 30:1-19
(Read Ezekiel 30:1-19)
The prophecy of the destruction of Egypt is very full. Those who take their lot with God's enemies, shall be with them in punishment. The king of Babylon and his army shall be instruments of this destruction. God often makes one wicked man a scourge to another. No place in the land of Egypt shall escape the fury of the Chaldeans. The Lord is known by the judgments he executes. Yet these are only present effects of the Divine displeasure, not worthy of our fear, compared with the wrath to come, from which Jesus delivers his people.