Ezekiel 32:6

I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. I WILL ALSO WATER WITH THY BLOOD THE LAND WHEREIN THOU SWIMMEST - Egypt: the land watered by the Nile, the source of its fertility, wherein thou swimmest (carrying on the image of the crocodile - i:e., wherein thou dost exercise thy wanton power at will). Irony. The land shall still afford seas to swim in, but they shall be seas of blood. Alluding to the plague of the waters turned into blood (Exodus 7:19; Revelation 8:8). Havernick translates [ tsaapaatªkaa (H6824)], 'I will water the land with what flows from thee, even thy blood, reaching to the mountains:' '...

1-16 It becomes us to weep and tremble for those who will not weep and tremble for themselves. Great oppressors are, in God's account, no better than beasts of prey. Those who admire the pomp of this world, will wonder at the ruin of that pomp; which to those who know the vanity of all things here below, is no surprise. When others are ruined by sin, we have to fear, knowing ourselves guilty. The instruments of the desolation are formidable. And the instances of the desolation are frightful. The waters of Egypt shall run like oil, which signifies there should be universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation. God can soon empty those of this world's goods who have the greatest fulness of them. By enlarging the matters of our joy, we increase the occasions of our sorrow. How weak and helpless, as to God, are the most powerful of mankind! The destruction of Egypt was a type of the d...

Verse Ezekiel 32:6. _THE LAND WHEREIN THOU SWIMMEST_] Egypt; so called, because intersected with _canals_, and _overflowed_ annually by the _Nile_....

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

AND I WILL ALSO WATER WITH THY BLOOD THE LAND WHEREWITH THOU SWIMMEST,.... Where he resided, over which he ruled; alluding to his being compared to a fish, a whale, or a crocodile; and which land abounded with all good things, and he with them; instead of being watered with the waters of the Nile, by which it became fruitful, it should now be flooded with the blood of his army: EVEN TO THE MOUNTAINS; an hyperbolical expression, signifying the vast quantity of blood that should be shed; see the like in Revelation 14:20: AND THE RIVERS SHALL BE FULL OF THEM; of the carcasses of his army, and of the blood of them; they should lie about everywhere, on mountains and valleys, on the land and in the rivers; and which should now be turned into blood, as the rivers of Egypt of old were; and which figure is used to express the destruction of the antichri

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 DIRGE OVER PHARAOH. A dirge is now sung over Pharaoh, in which he is likened, as before (Ezekiel 29:3), to a crocodile brutal and turbulent; but Yahweh will catch him in His net, and hurl his huge dripping carcase over mountain and valley, to be devoured by beasts and birds. Pharaoh, the brilliant luminary (the figure changes here), shall be extinguished; and other nations, when they behold Egypt's fate, shall tremble at the thought that the like may happen to themselves. All this means in plain terms (Ezekiel 32:11) that Egypt will be devastated by the king of Babylon. (Ezekiel 32:2. The opening words of the dirge are obscure: either thou didst liken thyself to a young lion, etc., but art only a river monster; or a

WHEREIN THOU SWIMMEST: or, of thy overflowing. RIVERS. torrents, or ravines. Hebrew. _aphikim_, See note on 2 Samuel 22:16. Not the same word as in Ezekiel 32:2....

_land wherein thou swimmest_ Probably: and I WILL WATER THE EARTH WITH THE OUTFLOW OF THY BLOOD, lit, with thy outflow from thy blood. It is possible that "from thy blood" is an explanatory gloss to "with thy outflow." Cf. Isaiah 34:3....

I WILL ALSO WATER WITH THY BLOOD, &C.— _I will water the land with thy blood; thy gore shall cover the mountains, and torrents shall abound from thee._ Houbigant....