Ezekiel 32:21

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 SPEAK HIM OUT OF THE MIDST OF HELL - (). Ezekiel has before his eyes , etc. SHALL SPEAK TO HIM - with "him" join "with them that help him;" shall speak to him and his helpers with a taunting welcome, as now one of themelves....

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 32:21. _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)....

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

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 warriors, and conquerors; and yet with all their might and strength could not withstand death, but were subdued by it, and brought down to the grave; these are, by a poetical figure, represented as meeting Pharaoh king of Egypt, when he came to his grave, saluting and welcoming him to the state of the dead in which they were; taking a sort of comfort in it, and insulting him as being as weak as they; see Isaiah 14:9, which they should do OUT OF THE MIDST OF HELL, or the grave, "Hades", the state of the dead: WITH THEM THAT HELP HIM; the associates, allies, and friends of Pharaoh, his auxiliaries that fell with him, and were brought to the grave a

HELL (Ezekiel 32:27); Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...

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 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....