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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 32:29

There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes ,.... In the next place, near the graves of the above mentioned, and in the same ruinous and desolate condition, lie the famous kingdom of Idumea, and the several kings and dukes of it, from the first setting of it up, to its last destruction prophesied of, Ezekiel 25:12 , of many of which mention is made, Genesis 36:15 , which with their might are laid by them that are slain with the sword ; who, notwithstanding their powerful armies,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:30

There be the princes of the north ,..... The kings of Babylon, according to Kimchi, which lay north of Judea; or the princes of Syria, Damascus, and Tyre, especially the latter, which commonly goes along with Zidon, being near it, as follows: and all the Zidonians . The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "and all the hunters"; but wrongly; as also the Septuagint and Arabic versions, which read the princes or soldiers of Assyria. The Zidonians or inhabitants of Zidon are meant as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over his multitude ,.... That is, when Pharaoh is brought to the grave, and into the state of the dead, he shall look about him, and see who lie by him; and he shall behold the above mentioned kings of Assyria, Persia, Idumea, and the princes of Tyre and Zidon, and all their mighty armies, generals and soldiers, in the same condition with himself; and this shall be some solace to him in his own death, and at the loss of so great a kingdom, such... read more

John Gill

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

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living ,.... Or, "his terror" F6 חתיתו "terrorem ejus", Grotius; "consternationem ejus", Starckius. ; there is a double reading. The Keri or marginal reading, which we follow has it "my terror" F7 חתיתי "terrorem meum", Pagninus, Munster, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus. ; but the Cetib or writing is his terror; and so read the Septuagint. Syriac, and Arabic versions; both may be taken, and the sense be, I have... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:29

There is Edom - All the glory and pomp of the Idumean kings, who also helped to oppress the Israelites, are gone down into the grave. Their kings, princes, and all their mighty men lie mingled with the uncircumcised, not distinguished from the common dead: "Where they an equal honor share, Who buried or unburied are. Where Agamemnon knows no more Than Irus, he condemned before. Where fair Achilles and Thersites lie, Equally naked, poor, and dry." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:30

There be the princes of the north - The kings of Media and Assyria, and all the Zidonians - the kings of Tyre, Sodom, and Damascus. See Calmet. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh shall see them - Pharaoh also, who said he was a god, shall be found among the vulgar dead. And shalt be comforted - Shall console himself, on finding that all other proud boasters are in the same circumstances with himself. Here is a reference to a consciousness after death. read more

Adam Clarke

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

I have caused my terror in the land of the living - I have spread dismay through Judea, the land of the living God, where the living oracles were delivered, and where the upright live by faith. When Pharaoh-necho came against Josiah, defeated, and slew him at Megiddo, fear and terror were spread through all the land of Judea; and the allusion here is probably to that circumstance. But even he is now laid with the uncircumcised, and is no more to be distinguished from the common dead. Much... 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

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