Bible Commentary

I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 9. vex the hearts ] Or, trouble. The precise feeling is not grief, and certainly not anger (A. V. marg.); in Eze 32:10 it is dismay, and then terror … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:9”

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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:8”

And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 7. put thee out ] i.e. extinguish thee. Pharaoh is regarded as a brilliant luminary; cf. Isa 14:12, “How art thou … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:7”

I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. 6. 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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:6”

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. 5. Cf. Eze 31:12 Other suggestions for “height” have little probability. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:5”

Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 4. will leave thee ] Will cast thee down; cf. Eze 29:5. See … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:4”

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. 3. Jehovah shall drag him out with his net by means of many peoples ( Eze 32:11-12). On figure, cf. Eze 12:13, Eze 17:20; Hos 7:12. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:3”

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou [art] as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. 2. art like … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:2”

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 1. The prophecy is dated the first of the twelfth month of the twelfth year, nearly a year and seven months after the fall of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:1”

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 31:18”