Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 32:5
The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on the land. Some render “height,” “foulness.”
The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on the land. Some render “height,” “foulness.”
Verse Ezekiel 32:5. _AND FILL THE VALLEYS WITH THY HEIGHT._] Some translate, with _the worms_, which should proceed from the putrefaction of his flesh....
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...
HEIGHT. thy high heap i.e. of thy slain....
Cf. Ezekiel 31:12 Other suggestions for "height" have little probability....
WITH THY HEIGHT— Or, _With thy bulk._ Houbigant renders it, _With thy stench._...
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...
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. I WILL ... FILL THE VALLEYS WITH THY HEIGHT - thy hugeness (Fairbairn). The multitude of thy forces, on which tho...
32:5 [members]; (f-19) Or 'and fill the valleys with thy carrion.'...
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
וְ נָתַתִּ֥י אֶת ־בְּשָׂרְךָ֖ עַל ־הֶֽ הָרִ֑י
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...
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys (d) with thy height. (d) With heaps of the carcass of your army....
_Corruption. Septuagint, "blood." But romuth (Haydock) means rather "worms." (Syriac) (Calmet)_...
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...
AND I WILL LAY THY FLESH UPON THE MOUNTAINS,.... The remainder of it, left by the birds and beasts of prey, and who might carry it thither; or it intends such of the Egyptians who should flee to the m...
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. Ver. 5. _With thy height._] _Celsitudine tua; _ _a_ with thy glory, which thou holdest dearer than thy flesh or life...
_I will spread out my net over thee_, &c. I will bring thine enemies upon thee, who shall encompass thee on every side, and master thee as a wild beast or monstrous fish is taken in a net. _Then will...
LAMENT OVER THE KING OF EGYPT...
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, like a huge corpse in the process of decay, AND FILL THE VALLEYS WITH THY HEIGHT, with great heaps of his followers, or in utter humiliation of his boundle...
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...
WILL LAY; throw or cast. THY FLESH; the carcasses of thy slain men and soldiers. UPON THE MOUNTAINS; whither they retired for safety. _Fill the valleys_; not so fill them as to equal them in height wi...
Ezekiel 32:5 lay H5414 (H8804) flesh H1320 mountains H2022 fill H4390 (H8765) valleys H1516 carcass H7419...
“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...
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
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 2:24...
With thy height — With the carcasses of thy princes....