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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 32:1-16

Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, Ezek. 32:2. It concerns ministers to be much of a serious spirit, and, in order thereunto, to be frequent in taking up lamentations for the fall and ruin of sinners, as those that have not desired, but dreaded, the woeful day. Note, Ministers that would affect others with the things of God must make it appear that they are themselves affected with the miseries which sinners bring upon themselves by their sins.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:1

And it came to pass in the twelfth year ,.... Of Jeconiah's captivity, above a year and a half after the taking of Jerusalem; the Syriac version reads in the eleventh year: in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month ; the month Adar, which answers to part of our February, and part of March; the Septuagint version reads it the tenth month: according to Bishop Usher F20 Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3417. , this was on the twenty second of March, on the fourth day of the week... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:2

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt ,.... Pharaohhophra, or Apries; say a funeral dirge for him; this is ordered, not out of honour and respect to him, or in compassion for his misery and ruin, but to assure him of it: and say unto him, thou art like a young lion of the nations ; for strength and fierceness, for cruelty and tyranny, which he exercised, not in one nation only, but in many; a lively emblem of the beast of Rome, spiritually called Egypt and Sodom,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:3

Thus saith the Lord God ,.... The Lord God Almighty, who is able to manage this fierce and turbulent creature, this mighty monarch and disturber of the nations: I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people ; meaning the Chaldean army, which the Lord would instigate, and by his providence bring against the king of Egypt, and surround him as fishes in a net, and take him and his people; see Ezekiel 12:13 , and they shall bring thee up in my net ; out of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:4

Then will I leave thee upon the land ,.... Like a fish that is drawn out of the waters with a net or hook, and laid on dry land, and left gasping and expiring, where it cannot long live: I will cast thee forth on the open field ; the same in different words, signifying that his army should fall in battle by the sword of the Cyreneans, or Chaldeans, or both, and be left on the surface of the earth unburied: and will cause all the fowls of the heavens to remain upon thee, and I will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:5

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains ,.... The remainder of it, left by the birds and beasts of prey, and who might carry it thither; or it intends such of the Egyptians who should flee to the mountains for safety, but should fall by the hands of the enemy there. So the Targum, "and I will give the flesh of thy slain upon the mountains.' And fill the valleys with thy height ; his huge army, and with which he prided and lifted up himself, and thought himself safe in; which should... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:1

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month - On Wednesday, March 22, the twelfth year of the captivity of Jeconiah, A.M. 3417. Instead of the twelfth year, five of Kennicott's MSS., and eight of De Rossi's, read עשרה בעשתי in the eleventh year. This reading is supported by the Syriac; and is confirmed by an excellent MS. of my own, about four hundred years old. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:2

Thou art like a young lion - and thou art as a whale in the seas - Thou mayest be likened to two of the fiercest animals in the creation; to a lion, the fiercest on the land; to a crocodile, תנים tannim , (see Ezekiel 29:3 ;), the fiercest in the waters. It may, however, point out the hippopotamus, as there seems to be a reference to his mode of feeding. He walks deliberately into the water over head, and pursues his way in the same manner; still keeping on his feet, and feeding on the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:5

And fill the valleys with thy height - Some translate, with the worms, which should proceed from the putrefaction of his flesh. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:1

In the twelfth year , etc. March, B.C. 584, nineteen months attar the destruction of Jerusalem. The two sections of the chapter, Ezekiel 32:1-16 and Ezekiel 32:17-32 , belong to the same year, and probably, though the date of the month is net given for the second, were written within a fortnight of each other. The thoughts of the prophet still dwell upon the downfall of Egypt, and he is stirred, as by a special inspiration, to write an elaborate "lamentation" over its departed... read more

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