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Ezekiel 32:7

put thee out i.e. extinguish thee. Pharaoh is regarded as a brilliant luminary; cf. Isaiah 14:12, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O shining one, morning star!" It is doubtful if there is any ref. to the constellation of the dragon. The dragon (Job 3:8; Job 9:13; Job 26:12) is not a constellation but a purely ideal representation of the eclipse or the storm-cloud which swallows up the lights of heaven. The phenomena in the verse are those usually characteristic of the dissolution of nature on the day of the Lord (Isaiah 13:10; Joel 2:31; Joel 3:15; Amos 8:9); but here they express rather the shock which creation receives when one so great meets with destruction.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PUT THEE OUT. extinguish thee. I WILL COVER, &c. Compare Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 14:12.Joel 2:10; Joel 3:15.

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. WHEN I SHALL PUT THEE OUT - when I...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PUT.. OUT] RV 'extinguish.' Pharaoh is represented as a heavenly luminary, at the extinction of which the other heavenly bodies veil their light. Some suppose that there is a special reference to the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MAKE THE STARS THEREOF DARK. — This verse follows very closely Isaiah 13:10, spoken of Babylon. In this and the following verse the judgments of God are described in the common prophetic figure of cha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כִסֵּיתִ֤י בְ כַבֹּֽותְךָ֙ שָׁמַ֔יִם וְ הִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And when I shall (f) put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. (f) The word signifies to be put out as...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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. -...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN I SHALL PUT THEE OUT,.... As a candle is put out, or some great light or blazing torch is extinguished; such was the king of Egypt in his splendour and glory; but now should be like a lamp pu...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. Ver. 7. _And when I shall put thee o...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when I shall put thee out, as when one extinguishes the light of a candle, I WILL COVER THE HEAVEN AND MAKE THE STARS THEREOF DARK, to express mourning and condolence; I WILL COVER THE SUN WITH A...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LAMENT OVER THE KING OF EGYPT...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PUT THEE OUT: Or, extinguish...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PUT THEE OUT; as a torch is extinguished, ISAIAH 43:17, so I will put out thy light, and turn thee into darkness. COVER THE HEAVEN; either by dark vapours that arise from blood and putrefying carcasse...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 32:7 out H3518 (H8763) cover H3680 (H8765) heavens H8064 make H6937 stars H3556 dark H693

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will throw my dragnet over you, with a large group of many peoples, And they will bring you up in my net. And I will leave you on the land, I will cast you out on the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:1 This oracle repeats the call to “lament” (vv. Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16). The poe

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Put thee out — As a torch is extinguished. Cover the sun — Probably some unusual darkness was seen in the heavens, and on the earth, about that time....

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