Ezekiel 32

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 32

Still we are upon the destruction of Pharaoh and Egypt, which is wonderfully enlarged upon, and with a great deal of emphasis. When we read so very much of Egypt's ruin, no less than six several prophecies at divers times delivered concerning it, we are ready to think, Surely there is some special reason for it. And, I. Perhaps it may look as far back as the book of Genesis, where we find (15:14) that God determined to judge Egypt for oppressing his people; and, though that was in part... read more

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

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

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 32 This chapter contains two more prophecies concerning the destruction of Egypt. The date of the first is given, Ezekiel 22:1 , in which the king of Egypt is compared to a large fish taken in a net, and brought to land, and left on it, to be the prey of the fowls of the air and beasts of the field, Ezekiel 32:2 , and the ruin of that kingdom is further amplified by the casting of it on the mountains and valleys; by the land flowing with its blood; by the... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:6

And I will also water with thy blood the land wherewith thou swimmest ,.... Where he resided, over which he ruled; alluding to his being compared to a fish, a whale, or a crocodile; and which land abounded with all good things, and he with them; instead of being watered with the waters of the Nile, by which it became fruitful, it should now be flooded with the blood of his army: even to the mountains ; an hyperbolical expression, signifying the vast quantity of blood that should be shed;... read more

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