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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:1-16

The Sixth Oracle. A Lament Over Pharaoh and Egypt (Ezekiel 32:1-16 ). The date of the oracle is March 585 BC. It follows the destruction of Jerusalem. The versions vary, seeking to alter the date to before that in Ezekiel 33:21 (probably to maintain a smooth chronology). But there is no valid reason to do so. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:1-32

The Oracles Against Egypt (Ezekiel 29:1 to Ezekiel 32:32 ). This section of the book is composed of seven oracles issued against Egypt. The fact that there are seven is probably deliberate in order to emphasise the divine completeness of the condemnation, for throughout the Near East seven was the number of divine perfection. Egypt was the great power to the south, as Assyria, Babylon and Persia were successively to the north. Except in very weak times, she had always seen the land of Canaan... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:9-10

“I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction (LXX ‘carry you captive’) among the nations, to the countries which you have not known. Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, their kings will be dreadfully afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. And they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.” Not only the heavens but far nations (countries which you have not known) will be deeply affected by his fall.... 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 32:9

Vex; it speaks a passion mixed and made up with grief for what is done, fear of the consequence of it, anger against him that did it, and an astonishment at the report, and it seizeth the heart and spirits of the hearers. Many people, and great nations. Thy destruction; either the fame of it, or the remainders that fled timely from thy destruction, or thy captives who after thou art destroyed are carried away, and the news of thy fall with them, or when the like ruin and destruction shall fall... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 32:10

Many people, and mighty people too. Amazed; astonished and puzzled, not knowing what resolutions to take, what advices to follow, or what to do. Their kings, who usually are, and in reason should be, undaunted, and discover no signs of fear, shall discover mighty disorders of fear and doubt, both for Egypt and themselves. Horribly afraid: see Ezekiel 27:35. Brandish my sword; or, make my sword pass with such speed, as if it did fly along their borders, or hover near them, and so threaten them.... 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 32:9

Eze 32:9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. Ver. 9. I will also vex. ] Or, Grieve. See Ecclesiastes 7:3 , where the same word signifieth anger and sorrow. Nebuchadnezzar’s growing greatness shall be a cut and a corrosive to them. read more

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