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Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:24

There is Elam - The Elamites, not far from the Assyrians; others think that Persia is meant. It was invaded by the joint forces of Cyaxares and Nebuchadnezzar. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:26

There is Meshech, Tubal - See on Ezekiel 27:13 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:27

Gone down to hell with their weapons of war - Are buried in their armor and with their weapons lying by their sides. It was a very ancient practice, in different nations, to bury a warrior's weapons in the same grave with himself. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:29

There is Edom - All the glory and pomp of the Idumean kings, who also helped to oppress the Israelites, are gone down into the grave. Their kings, princes, and all their mighty men lie mingled with the uncircumcised, not distinguished from the common dead: "Where they an equal honor share, Who buried or unburied are. Where Agamemnon knows no more Than Irus, he condemned before. Where fair Achilles and Thersites lie, Equally naked, poor, and dry." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:30

There be the princes of the north - The kings of Media and Assyria, and all the Zidonians - the kings of Tyre, Sodom, and Damascus. See Calmet. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh shall see them - Pharaoh also, who said he was a god, shall be found among the vulgar dead. And shalt be comforted - Shall console himself, on finding that all other proud boasters are in the same circumstances with himself. Here is a reference to a consciousness after death. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

The gathering of the guilty nations in Hades. This vision of the poet-prophet is one of the boldest and most sublime in the whole compass of literature. As a lofty flight of imagination it excites the wonder and admiration of every reader gifted with poetical appreciation. Ezekiel is bringing to a close his prophecies regarding the nations by which the land of Israel was encompassed. How far from the narrowness and the lack of sympathy sometimes attributed to the Hebrews was the prophet of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

Companionship in woe. The prophet is a man of power. He is a king bearing an invisible scepter. As a monarch wields only a borrowed power—a power lent by God—so a true prophet is God's vicegerent. Here he unfolds a terrible vision, the outline of a woeful reality. He leads the Egyptian king to the mouth of a vast abyss, in which lie multitudes of the vanquished and the slain. He is invited to contemplate the condition of those thus dishonored by the King of Babylon. And he is forewarned... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

A vision of the unseen world. In this highly figurative prophetic utterance we have— I. THE PROPHET 'S VISION ITSELF . He sees Egypt taking her place, as a fallen power, amongst the departed in the nether world. Nothing could save her; there was no reason why she should not go down as other guilty powers had done, "Whom did she pass in beauty?" ( Ezekiel 32:19 ). No distinction could be made in her case; she must "go down and be laid with the uncircumcised" ( Ezekiel 32:19 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:18

Cast them down , etc. The prophet thinks of himself as not only the predictor, but the minister, of the Divine judgments. So it was given to Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 1:10 ) "to root out and to pull down," and to Amos ( Amos 9:1 ) to "smite" and to wound. He executes the sentence, not on Egypt only, but on the other daughters of the famous nations , sc . on the nations themselves, especially those that are named in the verses that follow. read more

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