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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 32:14

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.

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See also Ezekiel 32:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 32:14. _CAUSE THEIR RIVERS TO RUN LIKE OIL_] Bring the whole state into quietness, there being no longer a political _hippopotamus_ to _foul the waters_-to disturb the peace of the count...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A promise of a return of God’s favor. This concerns not the restoration of Egypt’s original power, but the establishment of the Divine Ruler in the place of a pagan God-opposing power....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DEEP. subside....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The waters of Egypt, no more troubled by the foot of man or beast, shall run smooth like oil. _make their waters deep_ Rather: MAKE TO SETTLE, become clear; cf. noun, Ezekiel 34:18. No more trampled...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN WILL I MAKE, &C.— _Then will I make their waters to rest,_ or _subside, and cause their rivers to glide smoothly like oil,_ &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VI. DIRGE OVER PHARAOH 32:1-16 TRANSLATION (1) 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, (2) Son of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. THEN WILL I MAKE THEIR WATERS DEEP - rather, 'then will I make their waters to subside' [ 'ashqiya`...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    32:14 clear, (a-7) Lit. 'settle' or 'sink down.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DEEP] RV 'clear.' Clear and smooth rivers betoken an uninhabited land: see Ezekiel 32:13....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO LAMENTATIONS FOR PHARAOH AND EGYPT This chapter consists of two prophecies, both dated more than a year and a half after the capture of Jerusalem, and separated from each other by a fortnight. In...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 32 A FUNERAL SONG FOR EGYPT – EZEKIEL 32:1-16 V1 God

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DEEP should rather be rendered _quiet._ When the restless ambition of Egypt should be curbed, there would come about peace and quiet prosperity. This is thought by many to be a glance forward at the M...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֚ז אַשְׁקִ֣יעַ מֵֽימֵיהֶ֔ם וְ נַהֲרֹותָ֖ם כַּ †...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:1; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The sixth prophecy followed the fifth after an interval of nearly two years, but was closely associated with it, in that it consisted of a lamentation for Pharaoh whose doom was first described as the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then will I make (i) their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. (i) That is, of the Chaldeans your enemies, who will quietly enjoy all your conveniences....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Oil. It is very transparent. It seems the Nile was rendered muddy by cattle, &c._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I cannot but believe, though the thing is not plainly revealed, that the Lord hath in this place a spiritual meaning, and which is principally intended by these scriptures. Surely Ezekiel ministry wou...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29, 30, 31, AND 32. Chapter s 29-32 contain the judgment of Egypt. Egypt sought, in the self-will of man, to take the place which God had in fact given to Neb...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN WILL L MAKE THEIR WATERS DEEP,.... Either the water, of Egypt literally, the waters of the Nile: no canals being cut from it, to carry the water to the several parts of the land, the land being d...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 14. _Then will I make their waters deep._] There shall not be men left to drive them by ditches an...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will also destroy the beasts thereof_ Their horses, in which they trusted so much, Isaiah 31:3, and other cattle, feeding in their rich pastures by the river sides. _Neither shall the foot of man,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then will I make their waters deep, causing the muddiness to sink to the bottom and the water to be clarified, AND CAUSE THEIR RIVERS TO RUN LIKE OIL, or "with oil," a strong figure to express the ble...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LAMENT OVER THE KING OF EGYPT...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MAKE THEIR WATERS DEEP: the sense literally this, the waters undisturbed shall be clear, the mud settled at the bottom, and the waters above it of good depth. TO RUN LIKE OIL; smooth and softly, as oi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 32:14 waters H4325 clear H8257 (H8686) rivers H5104 run H3212 (H8686) oil H8081 Says H5002 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you. By the swords of the mighty will I cause your mass of people to fall. They are all the terrible of the nations, and...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIXTH ORACLE. A LAMENT OVER PHARAOH AND EGYPT (EZEKIEL 32:1). The date of the oracle is March 585 BC. It follows the destruction of Jerusalem. The versions vary, seeking to alter the date to befor...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: Great potentates, if they be tyrannical and oppressive, are in God's account no better than...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 32:2 _. _ _Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh,_ compose a funeral elegy for Egypt. Send out thy letters to Egypt as Jeremiah wrote to Babylon, and give them a space for repentance....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:1 This oracle repeats the call to “lament” (vv. Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16). The poe

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:14 Egypt’s fall to Babylon (vv. Ezekiel 32:11) provides an opportunity for nature to recover, with the WATERS and r

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    PROPHETIC DIRGES OVER EGYPT’S FALL (Chap. 32) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 32:1. “IN THE TWELFTH YEAR”—in the twelfth year from the carrying away of Jehoiakin: Jerusalem was by this time overthrown, an...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 Ezeki

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 32, because this is his sad destiny, he takes up this lamentation. A lamentation is a wailing or a crying for the Pharaoh. You lament, or you wail. And it came to pass in the twelfth y...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 34:18; Job 41:1...

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