Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 32:23
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.
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.
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...
COMPANY. gathered host. IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. Used here as the opposite of the land of the dead. See note on Ezekiel 26:20. The expression occurs six times in this chapter....
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...
_sides of the pit_ i.e. the depths or bottom of the pit. _caused terror_ Cf. Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 26:20. This phrase must mean that Asshur inspired terror into the nations by his might; to suppose 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...
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. WHOSE GRAVES ARE SET I...
32:23 terror (f-30) Or 'astonishment.' so vers. 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 32; ch. 26.17....
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...
SIDES] RV 'uttermost parts,' a remoter region of the under-world than that assigned to the heroes....
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
אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִתְּנ֤וּ קִבְרֹתֶ֨יהָ֙ בְּ יַרְכְּתֵי ־בֹ֔ור...
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...
WHOSE GRAVES ARE SET IN THE SIDES OF THE PIT,.... Or vault, where lay the king of Assyria, and those who fell by the sword with him, who are represented as lying in graves all around him; the nearest...
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. Ver. 23. _Whose graves a...
_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....
whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, according to the custom in the Orient of hollowing out the rock and laying the dead in niches thus hewn out, AND HER COMPANY IS ROUND ABOUT HER GRAVE, ALL...
DIRGE OVER TILE DESTRUCTION OF TILE EGYPTIAN POWER...
TERROR: Or, dismaying...
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...
At least for decorum here is supposed a spacious vault, or pit, in midst whereof the king of Asshur in a stately tomb lies buried, and round about the vault are places to lay others dead with him, and...
Ezekiel 32:23 graves H6913 set H5414 (H8738) recesses H3411 Pit H953 company H6951 around H5439 grave H6900 slain
“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 26:17; Ezekiel 26:20; Ezekiel 32:24; Ezekiel 32:32;...
Whose graves — Here is supposed a spacious vault, in the midst whereof the king of Ashur lies, and round the vault, his familiar captains and commanders. Her company — The common subjects of the Assyr...