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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

This prophecy concludes and completes the burden of Egypt, and leaves it and all its multitude in the pit of destruction. I. We are here invited to attend the funeral of that once flourishing kingdom, to lament its fall, and to take a view of those who attend it to the grave and accompany it in the grave. 1. This dead corpse of a kingdom is here brought to the grave. The prophet is ordered to cast them down to the pit (Ezek. 32:18), to foretel their destruction as one that had authority, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17

It came to pass also the twelfth year ,.... Another prophecy of the like kind was delivered out the same year as before: in the fifteenth day of the month ; of the twelfth month, the month Adar, which is not here expressed, because mentioned before, Ezekiel 32:1 , it was about a fortnight after the other prophecy. The Septuagint and Arabic versions read it, "it came to pass in the twelfth year, the first month, the fifteenth day of the month;' according to which this prophecy was... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:17

In the twelfth year - Two of Kennicott's MSS., one of De Rossi's, and one of my own, (that mentioned Ezekiel 32:1 ;), have, in the Eleventh year; and so has the Syriac, as before. This prophecy concerns the people of Egypt. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17

For yet fourteen days the mind of the prophet brooded over the fall of Egypt, and his thoughts at last found utterance in another lamentation, based upon that of Isaiah 14:1-32 . Taken together, the two passages give a vivid picture of the thoughts of the Hebrews as to the unseen world, and we find in them the germs of the later belief of Judaism in Paradise and Gehenna. What I have called the Dante element in Ezekiel it seen here raised to its highest power. 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 32:17

The seventh prophecy against Egypt Ezekiel 32:17-32. A funeral dirge founded on Ezekiel 31:18. The figure is the same as in Isaiah 14:0, where see the notes. In this dirge Pharaoh is especially addressed. The other nations are represented by their kings, the nations’ overthrow being depicted by the king’s body laid low in the grave.The month - i. e., the twelfth (see Ezekiel 32:1). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 32:17-18

Ezekiel 32:17-18. It came to pass, in the fifteenth day of the month Namely, of the month before mentioned, which was a few days after the time of the preceding revelation. The word of the Lord came unto me Giving me further directions how to improve the fall of Egypt. Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt Prepare the funeral ceremonies at the burial of Egypt, and compose an elegy suitable to the sad occasion. Bishop Lowth observes, that “this prophetic ode is a master-piece in... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:1-32

The end of Egypt (32:1-32)Again Pharaoh (or Egypt) is likened to the mythological monster of the Nile who will be caught, dragged out of the river and left to rot in the sun. His blood will flow over the land and his carcass will be meat for birds and wild animals (32:1-6; cf. 29:3-5). A terrifying darkness throughout the country will impress upon people that this judgment is the work of the sovereign God (7-8).Neighbouring nations will tremble when they see multitudes of Egyptian people killed... read more

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