Ezekiel 32:17

It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, IN THE TWELFTH YEAR - the same year as . The second lamentation for Pharaoh. This funeral dirge in imagination accompanies him to the unseen world. Egypt, personified in its political head, is ideally represented as undergoing the change by death to which man is liable. Expressing that Egypt's supremacy is no more-a thing of the past, never to be again. IN THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH - the twelfth month (); fourteen days after the former vision....

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 Jerusalem were about this time ruined and laid waste, yet they are not mentioned here. Though they suffered the same affliction, and by the same hand, yet the kind design for which they were afflicted, and the mercy God reserved for them, altered its nature. It was not to them a going down to the pit, as it was to the heathen. Pharaoh shall see, and be comforted; but the comfort wicked ones have after death, is poor comfort, not real, but only in fancy. The view this prophecy gives of ruined states shows something of this present world, and the empire of death in it. Come and see the calamitous state of human life. As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destro...

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_....

The seventh prophecy against Egypt Ezekiel 32:17. A funeral dirge founded on Ezekiel 31:18. The figure is the same as in Isaiah 14, where see the notes. In this dirge Pharaoh is especially addressed. The other nations are represented by their kings, the nations’ overthrow being depicted by the king’s body laid low in the grave. THE MONTH - i. e., the twelfth (see Ezekiel 32:1)....

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 Ezekiel 32:17, belong to the same year, and probably, though the date of the month is net given for the second, were written within a fortnight of each other. The thoughts of the prophet still dwell upon the downfall of Egypt, and he is stirred, as by a special inspiration, to write an elaborate "lamentation" over its departed greatness. It would seem, from the repetition of the word in Ezekiel 32:16, as if th

IT CAME TO PASS ALSO THE TWELFTH YEAR,.... Another prophecy of the like kind was delivered out the same year as before: IN THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH; of the twelfth month, the month Adar, which is not here expressed, because mentioned before, Ezekiel 32:1, it was about a fortnight after the other prophecy. The Septuagint and Arabic versions read it, "it came to pass in the twelfth year, the first month, the fifteenth day of the month;'' according to which this prophecy was before the other, which is not to be supposed....

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 under the picture of a tree follows in Ezekiel 31:10. The overthrow of Egypt and the resulting consternation among the nations is predicted in the last section of this chapter (Ezekiel 31:15). Ezekiel 32:1. The lamentation over Pharaoh is contained in Ezekiel 3

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 describes the descent of Pharaoh and his multitude to the underworld, and the ironical welcome (_cf._ Isaiah 14:9 f_.)_ which they there receive from the heroes of the olden time. There appear to be two divisions in Sheol one for those heroes who have been honourably buried, the other for such as the uncircumcised and those who have enjoyed no funeral rites. In that world the national distinctions of this live on. Significantly enough, seven nations are mentioned, four great and three small Assyria, Elam (south of Assyria), Meshech and Tubal (_cf._ Ezekiel 27:13), Edom, the North (perhaps the Syri

THE MONTH: i.e. the twelfth month. See Ezekiel 32:1....

The month is not specified, but presumably the same month as that named in Ezekiel 32:1 is intended, the twelfth. The present passage would in that case date a fortnight later than Ezekiel 32:1. LXX. reads _first_month of twelfth year; if this reading were followed the year in Ezekiel 32:1 must be read eleventh (with Syr.)....