Eze 32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. Ver. 5. With thy height. ] Celsitudine tua; a with thy glory, which thou holdest dearer than thy flesh or life. a Oecolamp. read more
Eze 32:6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. Ver. 6. I will also water with thy blood. ] Instead of thy river Nile. The land wherein thou swimmest. ] Egypt, where thou sportest, as the whale doth in the mighty waters. Even to the mountains. ] a A most elegant hyperbole, the like whereto see 2 Kings 21:16 . a Natabunt colles et valles cruore tuo. read more
And I: To represent the power, rapaciousness, and cruelty of Pharaoh, he had been compared to a fierce young lion, and also to an immense, overgrown sea-monster, or crocodile; and here it is predicted that God would cast a net over him, by which many companies of people should drag him out of his rivers, and cast him into the open field, mountains, valleys, etc., to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey; that is, his ruin would be complete, and attended with terrible miseries to the... read more
water: Exodus 7:17, Isaiah 34:3, Isaiah 34:7, Revelation 14:20, Revelation 16:6 the land: Egypt, so called because interspersed by numerous canals, and overflowed annually by the Nile. wherein thou swimmest: or, of thy swimming read more
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.With thy height — With the carcasses of thy princes. read more
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.Even to the mountains — Blood shall be poured forth, as if it were to rise to the very mountains.Full of thee — O thy blood, and of thy carcasses cast into them. read more
4, 5. Compare Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 31:12-13. The vultures and jackals feed on the carcass, the foulness of which fills the whole land. For A.V. height the Peshito reads “worms.” read more
6. Water with thy blood Rashi and Qimchi explain, the Delta will be inundated, even as high as the hills, not with fertilizing waters, but with the blood of the inhabitants. There are certain hieroglyphic texts which speak of invaders deluging the land like the Nile at its overflow. read more
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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