Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 32:19
whom dost thou pass in beauty? - Thou art not more beautiful than other nations: thou shalt not escape their fate.
whom dost thou pass in beauty? - Thou art not more beautiful than other nations: thou shalt not escape their fate.
Verse Ezekiel 32:19. _WHOM DOST THOU PASS IN BEAUTY?_] How little does it signify, whether a mummy be well embalmed, wrapped round with rich stuff, and beautifully painted on the outside, or not. Go d...
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 DESCENT OF EGYPT TO THE LOWER WORLD. This, the last oracle against Egypt, is unusually fascinating, whether we consider its sombre imagination, its literary power, or its religious importance. It...
THE UNCIRCUMCISED. This word is repeated ten times in this chapter, and always in connection with an ignominious death (verses: Ezekiel 32:19; Ezekiel 32:21; Ezekiel 32:24, Eze 19:32). Compare...
Dirge sung at the interment of Egypt and its multitude Several things are observable in this remarkable passage: 1. It is a funeral dirge primarily over the multitude or nation of Egypt; and so in t...
_Whom … pass in beauty_ i.e. surpass; Ew., pass in fortune. Probably the meaning is very much, To whom art (wast) thou superior? The multitude of Egypt or the Pharaoh as the genius of the nation is ad...
VII. THE DESCENT INTO SHEOL 32:17-32 TRANSLATION (17) And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son of man, wail for t...
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. WHOM DOST THOU PASS IN BEAUTY? - Beautiful as thou art, thou art not more so than other nations, which nevertheless...
UNCIRCUMCISED] dishonourably buried: see on Ezekiel 28:10. The term is practically equivalent to 'slain by the sword': so in Ezekiel 32:21; Ezekiel 32:24;...
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
WITH THE UNCIRCUMCISED. — See Note on Ezekiel 28:10. All question as to the use of circumcision among the Egyptians is out of place; the word is simply used as the ordinary phrase for the heathen....
מִ מִּ֖י נָעָ֑מְתָּ רְדָ֥ה וְ הָשְׁכְּבָ֖ה אֶ
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...
Whom dost thou pass (l) in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. (l) Have not other kingdoms more beautiful than you perished?...
The Prophet seems here to be closing the subject of the humiliation of men and princes, with all the great ones of the earth; and therefore includes in one and the same view the Egyptian, the Assyrian...
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...
WHOM DOST THOU PASS IN BEAUTY?.... This question the prophet is bid to put to Egypt; what nation is there, or has been, that thou excellest in wisdom, in riches, or in strength, in the multitude of su...
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. Ver. 19. _Whom dost thou pass in beauty?_] What art thou better than other thy compeers and complices in sin? Thou mus...
_Whom dost thou pass in beauty?_ What reason hast thou to prefer thyself before others? Art thou better than they, that thou shouldest not die and be laid in the dust as well as they? _Go down_ Namely...
Whom dost thou, namely, Egypt with its king, PASS IN BEAUTY? Where was a heathen people lovelier or more excellent than Egypt? Yet the command here goes forth, GO DOWN AND BE THOU LAID WITH THE UNCIRC...
DIRGE OVER TILE DESTRUCTION OF TILE EGYPTIAN POWER...
17-32 Divers nations are mentioned as gone down to the grave before Egypt, who are ready to give her a scornful reception; these nations had been lately ruined and wasted. But though Judah and Jerusa...
The whole, from this verse, is a most elegant personating of the dead, as if sensible, and acquainted, and discoursing with, and rejoicing at the fall of proud tyrants, who took not warning by their f...
Ezekiel 32:19 beauty H5276 (H8804) down H3381 (H8798) placed H7901 (H8713) uncircumcised H6189 dost -...
THE SEVENTH ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT. PHARAOH'S FINAL FAREWELL (EZEKIEL 32:17). The descriptions here are not to be thought of as illustrating what the afterlife will be like. The ancients looked on death...
“And so it was also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, wail for the numerous people of Egypt, and cast them down, even her...
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 32:17 This is the seventh and final oracle against Egypt and the last of the entire foreign-nation oracle collection. It returns to a theme introduced briefly in an oracle on t...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:19 The Egyptians practiced circumcision. Thus their place with the UNCIRCUMCISED would be cause for deep shame. ⇐...
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...
1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel 17:36; Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 27:4; Ezeki
Whom — Art thou better than others that thou shouldest not die, and be laid in the dust, as well as they. Go — Go down like others. With the uncircumcised — Among profane and loathed carcasses, such t...