CHAPTER XXXII _The prophet goes on to predict the fall of the king of Egypt,_ _under the figure of an animal of prey, such as a lion or_ _crocodile, caught, slain, and his carcass left a prey to the_ _fowls and wild beasts_, 1-6. _The figure is then changed; and the greatness of his fall_ _(de... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:2. _THOU ART LIKE A YOUNG LION - AND THOU_ ART _AS A WHALE IN_ _THE SEAS_] Thou mayest be likened to _two_ of the fiercest animals in the creation; to a lion, the fiercest on the _land_; to a _crocodile_, תנים tannin, (see Ezekiel 29:3,) the fiercest in the _waters_. It may, however... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:6. _THE LAND WHEREIN THOU SWIMMEST_] Egypt; so called, because intersected with _canals_, and _overflowed_ annually by the _Nile_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:7. _I WILL COVER THE HEAVEN_] Destroy the _empire_. _MAKE THE STARS THEREOF DARK_] Overwhelm all the _dependent states_. _I WILL COVER THE SUN_] The _king_ himself. _AND THE MOON SHALL NOT GIVE HER LIGHT._] The _queen_ may be meant, or some _state_ less than the kingdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the whole _land_, in desolation and wo.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:9. _I WILL ALSO VEX THE HEARTS_] Even the remote nations, who had no connexion with thee, shall be amazed at the judgments which have fallen upon thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:14. _CAUSE THEIR RIVERS TO RUN LIKE OIL_] Bring the whole state into quietness, there being no longer a political _hippopotamus_ to _foul the waters_-to disturb the peace of the country.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:15. _SHALL BE DESTITUTE OF THAT WHEREOF IT WAS FULL_] Of _corn_, and all other necessaries of life.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:17. _IN THE TWELFTH YEAR_] Two of _Kennicott's_ MSS., _one_ of _De Rossi's_, and _one_ of my own, (that mentioned Ezekiel 32:1,) have, _in the ELEVENTH year_; and so has the _Syriac_, as before. This prophecy concerns the _people of Egypt_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:18. _CAST THEM DOWN_] Show them that they shall be cast down. Proclaim to them a _casting down_ prophecy.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 down into the _tombs_, examine the _niches_, and see whether one dead carcass be preferable to anothe... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:21. _OUT OF THE MIDST OF HELL_] שאול _sheol_, the _catacombs,_ the _place of burial_. There is something here similar to Isaiah 14:9, where the descent of the king of Babylon to the state of the dead is described.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:22. _ASSHUR_ IS _THERE_] The mightiest conquerors of the earth have gone down to the grave before thee; there they and their soldiers lie together, all slain by the sword.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:23. _WHOSE GRAVES ARE SET IN THE SIDES OF THE PIT_] Alluding to the _niches_ in the sides of the subterranean caves or burying-places, where the bodies are laid. These are numerous in Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:24. _THERE_ IS _ELAM_] The Elamites, not far from the Assyrians; others think that _Persia_ is meant. It was invaded by the joint forces of Cyaxares and Nebuchadnezzar.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:26. _THERE_ IS _MESHECH, TUBAL_] See on Ezekiel 27:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:27. _GONE DOWN TO HELL WITH THEIR WEAPONS OF WAR_] Are buried in their armour and with their weapons lying by their sides. It was a very ancient practice, in different nations, to bury a warrior's weapons in the same grave with himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:29. _THERE_ IS _E__dom_] All the glory and pomp of the _Idumean_ kings, who also helped to oppress the Israelites, are gone down into the grave. Their kings, princes, and all their mighty men lie mingled with the _uncircumcised_, not distinguished from the _common_ _dead_: "Where t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:30. _THERE BE THE PRINCES OF THE NORTH_] The kings of Media and Assyria, and all the _Zidonians_-the kings of _Tyre, Sidon_, and _Damascus_. See _Calmet_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:31. _PHARAOH SHALL SEE THEM_] Pharaoh also, who said he was _a god_, shall be found among the vulgar dead. _AND SHALT BE COMFORTED_] Shall console himself, on finding that all other proud boasters are in the same circumstances with himself. Here is a reference to a _consciousness_... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 32:32. _I HAVE CAUSED MY TERROR IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING_] I have spread dismay through Judea, the land of the _living God_, where the _living oracles_ were delivered, and where the upright _live_ by faith. When Pharaoh-necho came against Josiah, defeated, and slew him at Megiddo, fea... [ Continue Reading ]