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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 32:3

Spread out my net over thee. — The figure (Ezekiel 32:4) of drawing the crocodile to land and casting him upon the desert for food to the birds and beasts of prey is the same as in Ezekiel 29:4. (Comp. also Ezekiel 31:12.) In Ezekiel 32:6, “the land wherein thou swimmest” is, literally, the land of thine outflow, and may be taken either of the land on which his blood is poured out, or, more probably, the land of the inundations of the Nile, now to be watered with blood.

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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

    THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_, See note on Ezekiel 2:4. COMPANY. gathered host. Compare Ezekiel 16:40. MANY: or, mighty. PEOPLE. peoples....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah shall drag him out with his net by means of many peoples (Ezekiel 32:11). On figure, cf. Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:20; Hosea 7:12. For people re

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. I WILL THEREFORE SPREAD OUT MY NET OVER THEE WITH A COM...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    32:3 peoples; (d-20) _ Ammim_ . see Psalms 7:8 ....

  • 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

    PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וּ פָרַשְׂתִּ֤י...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Net. Septuagint, "hook," chap. xxix. 4. (Calmet) --- Some take the crocodile with a net, ver. 3. (Elian. Hist. x. 21.)_...

  • 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

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... The Lord God Almighty, who is able to manage this fierce and turbulent creature, this mighty monarch and disturber of the nations: I WILL THEREFORE SPREAD OUT MY NET OVER...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. Ver. 3. _I will therefore spread out my net._] Thou shalt...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord God, I will therefore spread out My net over thee, the invading armies being his instruments, WITH A COMPANY OF MANY PEOPLE, all associated in the work of carrying out the Lord's v...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LAMENT OVER THE KING OF EGYPT...

  • 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

    MY NET; a large, long, and wide net, drawn out to full extent. OVER THEE; with which both lions and crocodiles might be taken, and in which this lion and crocodile should certainly be taken; for God,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 32:3 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 spread H6566 (H8804) net H7568 company H6951 many...

  • 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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 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

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 9:12; Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:20; Habakkuk 1:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    With a company — In the countries, where these creatures were hunted, they went in mighty companies....

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