Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:8
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
8. bright lights ] Lit. luminaries of light.
upon thy land ] Possibly with LXX.: upon the earth. The extinction of the lights in heaven referred to in the previous clause suggests a more general darkness than one over Pharaoh’s own land.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 8. And set darkness upon thy land] As I did when a former king refused to let my people go to the wilderness to worship me. I will involve thee, and thy house, and thy people, and the whole land, in desolation and wo.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
These two foregoing verses contain the same thing four times with a little variation, repeated to affect the hearers, and to impress it the more deeply on their minds.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee,…. Or, “all the lights of the light” a; the rest of the luminaries of heaven; the other five planets, as Kimchi, besides the sun and moon:
and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God; as there must needs be, the sun, moon, and stars, and all the lights of heaven, being darkened above: there seems to be an allusion to the thick darkness that was formerly over the land of Egypt; and this is a figure and representation of that darkness that shall be in the kingdom of the beast, or spiritual Egypt, yet to come; see Ex 10:21. The Targum is,
“tribulation as darkness shall cover thy land.”
a “omnia luminaria lucis”, Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 8. All the bright lights of heaven. ] See Eze 32:7 . All this shall befall the world really and without a hyperbole at the last day Mat 24:29
“ Impiaque aeternam patientur saecula noctem. ”
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
bright lights = light = bearers. Ref, to Pentateuch (Gen 1:14). App-92, Hebrew. ma’or.
saith the Lord GOD = [is] Adonai Jehovah’s oracle.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
bright lights of heaven: Heb. lights of the light in heaven, Gen 1:14
dark: Heb. them dark, Pro 20:20
set darkness upon: Involve the whole land in desolation and woe.
Reciprocal: Job 38:19 – darkness Isa 5:30 – if one look Isa 13:10 – General Isa 24:23 – the moon Isa 34:4 – all the Isa 45:7 – create darkness Jer 4:23 – the heavens Lam 2:1 – covered Mat 24:29 – shall the Luk 21:25 – signs Rev 6:12 – the sun Rev 8:12 – and the third part of the sun
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 32:8. The figurative description continues to be used with reference to the general defeat of Pharaoh and his country. If the sun and other lights in the heavens above the earth should be put out the earth would be thrown into darkness. Likewise, when Pharaoh and his leading men are put down by the predicted invasion, the country will be thrown into political darkness.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set {g} darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
(g) By this manner of speech is meant the great sorrow that will be for the slaughter of the king and his people.