Ezekiel 32:1
Twelfth year — Of the captivity of Jeconiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
Twelfth year — Of the captivity of Jeconiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
Like a young lion — Spoiling all thou canst. Crocodile — The crocodiles lay in the rivers, though sometimes they went down the river to the sea. With thy rivers — Raisedst mighty armies, and didst lead them out against thy neighbours. The waters — The people, and kings near thee. Thy feet — With thy... [ Continue Reading ]
With a company — In the countries, where these creatures were hunted, they went in mighty companies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Leave thee — This was literally fulfilled in the deserts of Lybia, where the slain of Hophra's army, were left to be devoured by fowls and beasts.... [ Continue Reading ]
With thy height — With the carcasses of thy princes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Even to the mountains — Blood shall be poured forth, as if it were to rise to the very mountains. Full of thee — O thy blood, and of thy carcasses cast into them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Put thee out — As a torch is extinguished. Cover the sun — Probably some unusual darkness was seen in the heavens, and on the earth, about that time.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy destruction — The fame of it. Not known — Such as were strangers to Egypt, shall be troubled with apprehension of what mischief may come upon the world from so mighty a conqueror.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall tremble — Be greatly afraid, lest Nebuchadnezzar, who is God's sword, should smite them. Every man — Every one of the kings, whose kingdoms are near to Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the beasts — The sheep, and oxen devoured, or driven away: the horses taken up to mount the horsemen, whose own horses were tired, or spoiled. Great waters — The pasture lying along the river side. Trouble them — There shall be so few men left in Egypt, that they shall not as formerly, disturb t... [ Continue Reading ]
Like oil — A figurative expression, signifying, there shall be such an universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation, that the very rivers which used to flow briskly, shall grow deep, and slow, and heavy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of that — Men and women, cattle, wealth, and peace.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the lamentation — This mournful account, which the prophet has given of Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wail — Prepare the funeral ceremonies at the burial of Egypt. The daughters — And celebrate the funerals of other cities and kingdoms that lie buried in their own ruins. The nether parts of the earth — A well known description of the state of the dead. The pit — The Egyptians affected to be buried i... [ Continue Reading ]
Whom — Art thou better than others that thou shouldest not die, and be laid in the dust, as well as they. Go — Go down like others. With the uncircumcised — Among profane and loathed carcasses, such the uncircumcised were in the opinion of the circumcised, as were the Egyptians.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The Egyptians. She — The whole Egyptian kingdom. Draw — And throw them together into the pit.... [ Continue Reading ]
Him — The king of Egypt. The grave — Where they lie without strength, as dead mortals, tho' while they lived, they bore themselves, as gods. That help — His helpers, dead before him, shall speak to him. Gone down — To the grave. They lie — Neglected, and forgotten.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ashur — The famous, warlike, king of Assyria. Is there — In the state of the dead, in the land of darkness and oblivion. Her company — Princes, soldiers, subjects, and confederates. Are about him — They are about him, who were slain with him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whose graves — Here is supposed a spacious vault, in the midst whereof the king of Ashur lies, and round the vault, his familiar captains and commanders. Her company — The common subjects of the Assyrian empire, all buried undistinguished about her. Her grave — The ruins of an empire are its grave.... [ Continue Reading ]
Elam — The Persians, and their famous kings, who lived in former days. Their shame — God, and man poured contempt upon them, and turned their glory into shame.... [ Continue Reading ]
A bed — The Persians had their coffins, in which with balms and spices, the dead were kept, in the midst of places provided for them; in such is the king of Elam here placed with his slaughtered captains about him. All the honour he can now pretend to, is to be buried in the chief sepulchre.... [ Continue Reading ]
Her multitude — With the Cappadocians and Albanians, the Scythians may be included, many of whom were next neighbors to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The leaders of these Scythians were not buried with a pomp like that of Ashur, or Elan, but surprised by Halyattes and Cyaxares, were cut off with all their multitude, and tumbled into pits with the rabble. With their weapons — A ceremony observed in pompous funerals of great captains, to hav... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou — Chief of Mesech, and Tubal. Shalt be broken — Shalt be killed with the rest of thy wicked followers. Shalt lie — Without regard, hurled into the pit with common soldiers.... [ Continue Reading ]
With the uncircumcised — The Edomites retained circumcision, being of the seed of Abraham. But that shall stand them in no stead: they shall lie with the uncircumcised.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of the north — Tyrians, Assyrians, and Syrians, who lay northward from Judea, now swallowed up by the Babylonian. Of their might — When it appeared too weak to resist the enemy. Uncircumcised — Scorned, and cast out as profane and loathsome.... [ Continue Reading ]
Comforted — Poor comfort! Yet all that he will find!... [ Continue Reading ]
My terror — These tyrants were a terror to the world by their cruelty; and God hath made them a terror by his just punishments; and so, saith God, will I do with Pharaoh. Come and see the calamitous state of human life! See what a dying world this is! The strong die, the mighty die; Pharaoh and all... [ Continue Reading ]