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.
THE UNCIRCUMCISED - throughout this dirge is equivalent to pagan viewed as impure (Ezekiel 31:18 note)....
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 STRONG. The strongest, or chiefeet. SHALL SPEAK, &c, Note the Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6), by which dead people are represented as speaking. HELL. the grave. Hebrew. _Sheol_. App-35....
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...
The Pharaoh and his multitude are supposed here to have descended into Sheòl, and the "mighty ones" already there address them (Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 14:10) or speak of them. _The strong among the might...
WITH THEM THAT HELP HIM— _With them that have helped him, who are gone down, who lie in the midst, victims of the sword._ Houbigant. But this difficult verse may be otherwise rendered: _The strongest...
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...
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. THE STRONG AMONG THE MIGHTY SHALL S...
32:21 him (c-14) Or 'speak of him.' 'Strong' in this verse is _ el_ ....
THE STRONG AMONG THE MIGHTY] the ancient heroes, referred to also in Ezekiel 32:27. HELL] Sheol, the place of the honoured dead: so in Ezekiel 32:27. THEY ARE GONE DOWN, etc.] the taunt uttered by th...
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
SPEAK TO HIM. — The pronoun oscillates between the masculine and the feminine, because the thought is partly of the king and partly of the kingdom. The pronoun is determined by whichever is for the mo...
יְדַבְּרוּ ־לֹ֞ו אֵלֵ֧י גִבֹּורִ֛ים מִ תֹּ֥וךְ...
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...
The strong among the mighty shall speak to (n) him out of the midst of the grave with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. (n) To make the matter more s...
Most. Septuagint, "giants shall say to thee: Remain in the depth of the pit. Whom dost thou excel? descend," &c. (Haydock) --- They vary much in this chapter from the Hebrew. (St. Jerome) --- Helpers;...
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...
THE STRONG AMONG THE MIGHTY SHALL SPEAK TO HIM,.... The strongest of them, such who have excelled others in strength and courage, famous for military exploits, who have been generals of armies, great...
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Ver. 21. _The strong among the mighty....
_The strong among the mighty shall speak to him_ Namely, to the king of Egypt; _out of the midst of hell_ Or, _the pit_, as Bishop Newcome renders the word: see Ezekiel 32:23. The passage is “a poetic...
The strong among the mighty, the allies and associates of Pharaoh that have preceded him into the realm of the dead, SHALL SPEAK TO HIM OUT OF THE MIDST OF HELL WITH THEM THAT HELP HIM, for so certain...
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 prophet seems in this verse to introduce the next speakers in this parley, and bringing them in, gives their character. THE STRONG; the powerful, the valiant, whose natural strength of body was gr...
Ezekiel 32:21 strong H410 mighty H1368 speak H1696 (H8762) midst H8432 hell H7585 help H5826 (H8802) gone...
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...
“The strong among the mighty will speak to him from the midst of Sheol with those that help him. ‘They have gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.' The dead, those who...
HELL (Ezekiel 32:27); Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 32:19; Ezekiel 32:24; Ezekiel 32:25; Ezekiel 32:27; Isaiah
Him — The king of Egypt. The grave — Where they lie without strength, as dead mortals, tho' while they lived, they bore themselves, as gods. That help — His helpers, dead before him, shall speak to hi...