Ezekiel 32:20-32

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 32:20

They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword ,.... The Egyptians shall fall in battle by the sword of the Chaldeans: she is delivered to the sword ; Egypt is given to the sword, to perish by it, for her sins, according to the just appointment of God: draw her and all her multitudes ; to the place of burial; not in pomp and splendour, as great persons are drawn in hearses; but in great disgrace, as carcasses are dragged unto a common pit or grave, and cast into it:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:21

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him ,.... The strongest of them, such who have excelled others in strength and courage, famous for military exploits, who have been generals of armies, great warriors, and conquerors; and yet with all their might and strength could not withstand death, but were subdued by it, and brought down to the grave; these are, by a poetical figure, represented as meeting Pharaoh king of Egypt, when he came to his grave, saluting and welcoming him to the state... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:22

Ashur is there, and all her company ,.... In the state of the dead, or in a most desolate and ruinous condition; the great Assyrian monarchy, the kings of it, the princes, nobles, generals, soldiers, and the vast number of subjects in all the dominions of it; all his army, as the Targum; this, with what follows, shows who the mighty are, that should meet and address the king of Egypt at his funeral: his graves are about him ; either the graves of Pharaoh and his multitude are round about... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:23

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit ,.... Or vault, where lay the king of Assyria, and those who fell by the sword with him, who are represented as lying in graves all around him; the nearest to him those who were in the highest posts, and most valiant and courageous, and next the common soldiers, as follows: and her company is round about her grave not Pharaoh's company round about the grave of the Assyrian monarch; but the company of the king of Assyria, or his army, as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:24

There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave ,.... The kingdom of the Medes and Persians lying in ruin, and the potent kings thereof in the state of the dead; with their army, as the Arabic version, slain and destroyed, and placed round about the grave of the king of Persia; for of him rather it is to be understood than of the king of Assyria, or of Egypt, as some: all of them slain, fallen by the sword ; either of the Scythians in the reign of Cyaxares; or of Nebuchadnezzar... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:25

They have set her bed in the midst of the slain, with all her multitude ,.... The grave is called a bed, Isaiah 57:2 , whereon is put the sepulchral chest or coffin, in which the body is laid, and rests as on a bed. It may here design a stately sepulchre or coffin in it, with a magnificent monument over it for the king of Elam, with his army, and the generals of it slain in battle, placed all around him, in less stately beds, coffins, and graves, as explained in the next clause: her... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:26

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude ,.... The Scythians, a powerful and warlike people; and all their armies, as the Targum; with their leaders, generals, and commanders, as lying in their graves next to the Assyrians and Elamites, or her graves are round about him ; not the king of Egypt, nor the king of Assyria, nor the king of Persia; but the chief commander of the Scythians, called the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, Ezekiel 38:2 , all of them slain by the sword ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:27

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised ,.... That is, shall not lie in such state, or be buried with such pomp and magnificence, and have such sepulchral monuments erected to their memory, as other heroes among the Heathens have had; such as the mighty kings of Assyria and Persia before mentioned: which are gone down to hell , or "the grave", with their weapons of war ; which were never taken from them, and which they held in their hands to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:28

Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised ,.... Kimchi, and so others, think this is said to Pharaoh king of Egypt; but rather it respects the prince of the Scythians, who should fall into the hands of Heathens, and be destroyed by them: and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword ; be buried with them, or in like manner as they are; and not as mighty warriors, who die a natural death in their own country, and are buried in a stately and magnificent manner;... read more

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