All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 8. All the bright lights of heaven.] See Ezekiel 32:7. All this shall befall the world really and without a hyperbole at the last day Mat 24:29
“ Impiaque aeternam patientur saecula noctem. ”
Verse Ezekiel 32:8. _AND SET DARKNESS UPON THY LAND_] As I did when a former king refused to let my people go to the wilderness to worship me. I will involve thee, and thy house, and thy _people_, and...
Ezekiel 31:1. Pharaoh's greatness is described in the first part of the chapter (Ezekiel 31:1). He is compared to the Assyrian, once so powerful and proud. The fall and desolation of the proud monarch...
THE DIRGE OVER PHARAOH. A dirge is now sung over Pharaoh, in which he is likened, as before (Ezekiel 29:3), to a crocodile brutal and turbulent; but Yahweh will catch him in His net, and hurl his huge...
BRIGHT LIGHTS. light. bearers. Ref, to Pentateuch (Genesis 1:14). App-92, Hebrew. _ma'or_. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
_bright lights_ Lit. luminaries of light. _upon thy land_ Possibly with LXX.: upon _the earth_. The extinction of the lights in heaven referred to in the previous clause suggests a more general darkn...
I WILL COVER THE HEAVEN, &C.— See Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 30:26 where the same metaphors are used, to denote the downfal of states and governments....
VI. DIRGE OVER PHARAOH 32:1-16 TRANSLATION (1) And it Came to Pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) Son of...
_ALL THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF HEAVEN WILL I MAKE DARK OVER THEE, AND SET DARKNESS UPON THY LAND, SAITH THE LORD GOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
TWO LAMENTATIONS FOR PHARAOH AND EGYPT This chapter consists of two prophecies, both dated more than a year and a half after the capture of Jerusalem, and separated from each other by a fortnight. In...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 32 A FUNERAL SONG FOR EGYPT – EZEKIEL 32:1-16 V1 God
כָּל ־מְאֹ֤ורֵי אֹור֙ בַּ † שָּׁמַ֔יִם אַקְדִּירֵ֖ם...
EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:1; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power
The sixth prophecy followed the fifth after an interval of nearly two years, but was closely associated with it, in that it consisted of a lamentation for Pharaoh whose doom was first described as the...
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set (g) darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. (g) By this manner of speech is meant the great sorrow that will be for the slaught...
_Out, like a candle, by death; extinctus. (Haydock) --- The glory of Egypt was so great, that at its fall the light of heaven seemed diminished. (Worthington) --- Great desolation is thus intimated. -...
I cannot but believe, though the thing is not plainly revealed, that the Lord hath in this place a spiritual meaning, and which is principally intended by these scriptures. Surely Ezekiel ministry wou...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29, 30, 31, AND 32. Chapter s 29-32 contain the judgment of Egypt. Egypt sought, in the self-will of man, to take the place which God had in fact given to Neb...
ALL THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF HEAVEN WILL I MAKE DARK OVER THEE,.... Or, "all the lights of the light" a; the rest of the luminaries of heaven; the other five planets, as Kimchi, besides the sun and moon:...
_And when I shall put thee out_ When I shall cast thee down from thy power, and extinguish all thy glory. _I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark_ It is well known that the downfall...
All the bright lights of heaven, otherwise given as lights for men, and for the delight of their eves, WILL I MAKE DARK OVER THEE, on account of the judgment upon godless Egypt, AND SET DARKNESS UPON...
LAMENT OVER THE KING OF EGYPT...
BRIGHT LIGHTS OF HEAVEN: _ Heb._ lights of the light in heaven DARK OVER THEE: _ Heb._ them dark...
1-16 It becomes us to weep and tremble for those who will not weep and tremble for themselves. Great oppressors are, in God's account, no better than beasts of prey. Those who admire the pomp of this...
These two foregoing verses contain the same thing four times with a little variation, repeated to affect the hearers, and to impress it the more deeply on their minds....
Ezekiel 32:8 bright H3974 lights H216 heavens H8064 dark H6937 (H8686) bring H5414 (H8804) darkness H2822 land...
“And when I blot you out I will cover the heavens, And make their stars dark, I will cover the sun with a cloud, And the moon will not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I darken...
THE SIXTH ORACLE. A LAMENT OVER PHARAOH AND EGYPT (EZEKIEL 32:1). The date of the oracle is March 585 BC. It follows the destruction of Jerusalem. The versions vary, seeking to alter the date to befor...
CONTENTS: Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: Great potentates, if they be tyrannical and oppressive, are in God's account no better than...
Ezekiel 32:2 _. _ _Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh,_ compose a funeral elegy for Egypt. Send out thy letters to Egypt as Jeremiah wrote to Babylon, and give them a space for repentance....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:1 This oracle repeats the call to “lament” (vv. Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16). The poe
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:7 The DARKNESS ON YOUR LAND alludes to the exodus story (see Ezekiel 30:13; also...
PROPHETIC DIRGES OVER EGYPT’S FALL (Chap. 32) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 32:1. “IN THE TWELFTH YEAR”—in the twelfth year from the carrying away of Jehoiakin: Jerusalem was by this time overthrown, an...
EXPOSITION 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 and Ezeki
Now in chapter 32, because this is his sad destiny, he takes up this lamentation. A lamentation is a wailing or a crying for the Pharaoh. You lament, or you wail. And it came to pass in the twelfth y...
Genesis 1:14; Proverbs 20:20...