Reference

Ezekiel 30:10

Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
8

And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

9

In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

10

Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

11

He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

12

And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.

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Literal Fulfillment

While the verse explicitly names Nebuchadnezzar, suggesting a literal historical event, some interpretations might view "making the multitude of Egypt to cease" as a hyperbolic or symbolic description of a significant defeat rather than a complete annihilation of the population.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse states "Thus saith the Lord God," indicating a divine message, but it does not describe the *method* by which Ezekiel received this message, only that he is relaying it.