Migdol

Migdol (the name means 'tower') was a fortified town on the northeastern frontier of Egypt, probably on the coastal road from Canaan near Pelusium. Jeremiah received a word from Yahweh “concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros” (Jeremiah 44:1), and he named it again in his prophecy against Egypt: “Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes” (Jeremiah 46:14). Ezekiel uses it, with Syene in the far south, to mark the whole length of Egypt in his prophecy that the land would be made desolate (Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:6); the WEB translates the name there as “the tower” (“from the tower of Seveneh”). It is probably not the Migdol near which Israel camped before crossing the sea (Exodus 14:2).