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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 32:1-32

The sixth prophecy followed the fifth after an interval of nearly two years, but was closely associated with it, in that it consisted of a lamentation for Pharaoh whose doom was first described as the taking of a dragon in the seas and casting him forth on the land. The effect of this downfall would be widespread, bringing desolation to his own land, supplying booty to other lands, and making men everywhere tremble in the presence of the judgment of Jehovah. This prophecy was uttered almost... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:1-2

‘And so it was that in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him: “You were likened to a young lion among the nations, Yet you are as a monster in the seas. And you burst forth on your rivers, And you trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers. ‘The word of Yahweh came to me saying.’ This introduces every oracle. No prophet is quite... read more

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

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 32:1

In the twelfth year of the captivity of Jeconiah. In the twelfth month, answering to part of our February and part of March, and called Sabat. In the first day; and was the 15th of February old style, and the 5th new style. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 32:2

Take a lamentation: see Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 27:2. Pharaoh; Hophra. Like a young lion: of this hieroglyphic see Ezekiel 19:3,Ezekiel 19:6. Of the nations; among, or to, the nations round about thee, spoiling all thou canst, a cruel devourer abroad. A whale; a crocodile, a devouring dragon in thy rivers at home, for there the crocodiles lay and did mischief, though sometimes they went down the river to the sea. In the seas; that comes forth to seek prey and devour, so a lion at land, a whale,... 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

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Ezekiel 32:1

twelfth month i.e. March. Also Ezekiel 32:17. 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

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