Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 32:22
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.
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.
In Jeremiah 25 there is an enumeration of nations destined to be subject to the fury of the Chaldaeans. Here we find those of them who had already fallen not named by Jeremiah. Asshur is the king of A...
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...
ASSHUR: i.e. the great empire of Assyria. GRAVES. Hebrew. _keber_. burying-places, or sepulchres. See App-36. Same word as in verses: Ezekiel 32:23; Ezekiel 32:25; Ezekiel 32:26....
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...
Asshur. _her company_ In ref. to the other peoples "multitude" is used. The term "company" may be used of the many nationalities in the Assyrian empire, cf. Ezekiel 23:24. _his graves … him_ The gend...
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...
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: ASSHUR IS THERE, AND ALL HER COMPANY: HIS GRAVES ARE ABOUT HIM - "her-his;" the abrupt change...
32:22 his (d-6) Lit. 'her;' so ver. 23, &c. graves (e-9) Alluding to the niches in sepulchral vaults....
ASSHUR] Assyria. HIS GRAVES _are_ ABOUT HIM] The central grave is that of the king, or of the embodied genius of the nation ('her grave,' Ezekiel 32:23, etc.)....
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
ASSHUR IS THERE. — In the previous verses we have had a general picture of the fallen nations awaiting to receive Egypt as their companion; in Ezekiel 32:22 there follows an enumeration of the most pr...
שָׁ֤ם אַשּׁוּר֙ וְ כָל ־קְהָלָ֔הּ סְבִֽיבֹותָ֖יו...
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 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...
ASHUR IS THERE, AND ALL HER COMPANY,.... In the state of the dead, or in a most desolate and ruinous condition; the great Assyrian monarchy, the kings of it, the princes, nobles, generals, soldiers, a...
Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: Ver. 22. _Ashur is there._] To wit, in the belly of hell, among the uncircumcised, as Lazaru...
_Asshur is there and all her company_ The Assyrians, both king and people, whose destruction is represented in the foregoing chapter: though famous, warlike, and victorious, that mighty monarch fell....
DIRGE OVER TILE DESTRUCTION OF TILE EGYPTIAN POWER...
Asshur is there and all her company, haying been overthrown some time before; HIS GRAVES ARE ABOUT HIM, all holding their dead, ALL OF THEM SLAIN, FALLEN BY THE SWORD,...
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...
ASSHUR, the famous, warlike, victorious kings of Assyria, is there; in the state of the dead, in the land of darkness and oblivion; AND ALL HER COMPANY; princes, captains, soldiers, subjects, and conf...
Ezekiel 32:22 Assyria H804 company H6951 graves H6913 around H5439 slain H2491 fallen H5307 (H8802) sword H2719
“Asshur (Assyria) is there and all her company, his graves are round about him. All of them slain, fallen by the sword. Whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit. And her company is round...
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...
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 32:22 ASSYRIA is in the UTTERMOST PARTS of the pit. Ezekiel’s Sheol has levels of shame, and Assyria’s appears to be the deepest. See vv....
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 31:3; Ezekiel 32:24; Ezekiel 32:26; Ezekiel 32:29; Ez
Ashur — The famous, warlike, king of Assyria. Is there — In the state of the dead, in the land of darkness and oblivion. Her company — Princes, soldiers, subjects, and confederates. Are about him — Th...