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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:11-14

‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you. By the swords of the mighty will I cause your mass of people to fall. They are all the terrible of the nations, and they will spoil the pride of Egypt, and all its mass of people will be destroyed. I will also destroy its beasts from beside many waters, nor will the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them. Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:1-16

Ezekiel 32:1-Nehemiah : . The Dirge over Pharaoh.— A dirge is now sung over Pharaoh, in which he is likened, as before ( Ezekiel 29:3), to a crocodile— brutal and turbulent; but Yahweh will catch him in His net, and hurl his huge dripping carcase over mountain and valley, to be devoured by beasts and birds. Pharaoh, the brilliant luminary (the figure changes here), shall be extinguished; and other nations, when they behold Egypt’ s fate, shall tremble at the thought that the like may happen... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 32:14

Make their waters deep: the sense literally this, the waters undisturbed shall be clear, the mud settled at the bottom, and the waters above it of good depth. To run like oil; smooth and softly, as oil glides along, which will be when neither men nor cattle disturb the rivers: but figuratively, waters and rivers are people and nations, and those near to, and once disturbed, and put into confusion by Egypt, at whose fall all those troubles shall cease, the people shall settle in quiet state, and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 32:1-32

PROPHETIC DIRGES OVER EGYPT’S FALL (Chap. 32)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 32:1. “In the twelfth year”—in the twelfth year from the carrying away of Jehoiakin: Jerusalem was by this time overthrown, and Amasis was beginning to revolt against Pharaoh-Hophra.Ezekiel 32:2. “Like a young lion and as a whale”—any monster of the waters: here the crocodile of the Nile. As a lion on dry land and a crocodile in the waters, Pharaoh is terrible alike by land and sea.Ezekiel 32:3. “I will spread my net”—the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:1-32

Chapter 32Now in chapter 32, because this is his sad destiny, he takes up this lamentation. A lamentation is a wailing or a crying for the Pharaoh. You lament, or you wail.And it came to pass in the twelfth year ( Ezekiel 32:1 ),So this was a year later from the previous prophecy. Actually, a year and six months later, eighteen months later.It came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 32:1-32

Ezekiel 32:2 . Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, compose a funeral elegy for Egypt. Send out thy letters to Egypt as Jeremiah wrote to Babylon, and give them a space for repentance. Say, the lion of the gentiles is coming against him. Herodotus in his second book, Euterpe, relates how Egypt fell successively under the power of Babylon, Persia, and Greece. Ezekiel 32:7-8 . I will cover the heaven and set darkness upon thy land. I will eclipse the sun, and all the stars of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 32:14

Eze 32:14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 14. Then will I make their waters deep. ] There shall not be men left to drive them by ditches and channels into their grounds and pastures, for the making of them fruitful. And cause their rivers to run like oil, ] i.e., Smoothly and silently. “ Lene fluit Nilus, sed cunctis amnibus extat Utilior, nullas confessus murmure vires. ” - Claudian. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 32:14

and cause: The neighbouring countries shall be in a state of quietness, like a river that smoothly glides along, having no longer a political crocodile to foul their waters, or to disturb their peace. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ezekiel 32:14

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.Like oil — A figurative expression, signifying, there shall be such an universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation, that the very rivers which used to flow briskly, shall grow deep, and slow, and heavy. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:11-15

11-15. It is now plainly stated that Nebuchadnezzar and the terrible Chaldeans shall work this destruction. (Compare Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 29:11; Ezekiel 29:19.) The waters shall now be “clear” (R.V.), and smooth as oil, no longer fouled (R.V., “troubled”) by the struggling crocodile (Ezekiel 32:2), for all life shall be destroyed; then shall the Egyptians know who Jehovah is. (Compare Ezekiel 30:26.) read more