Ezekiel 32:29 - Exposition

There is Edom, her kings and her princes . (For the political relations of Edom at this time, see Ezekiel 25:12-14 .) Whatever shadow of power might yet remain to it, Ezekiel, from his standpoint, could yet declare that her greatness had departed. The exultation which the Edomites had shown over the fall of Jerusalem ( Psalms 137:7 ) would naturally tend to accentuate the prophet's language. The "princes" of Edom are probably identical with the "dukes" of Genesis 36:15-43 and 1 Chronicles 1:51 , where the word means literally the heads or captains of thousands, i.e. of tribes, as in 6:15 (comp. Zechariah 9:7 ; Zechariah 12:5 ).