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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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DEEP. subside....
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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....
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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...
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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`...
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32:14 clear, (a-7) Lit. 'settle' or 'sink down.'...
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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...
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DEEP] RV 'clear.' Clear and smooth rivers betoken an uninhabited land:
see Ezekiel 32:13....
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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
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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...
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אָ֚ז אַשְׁקִ֣יעַ מֵֽימֵיהֶ֔ם וְ
נַהֲרֹותָ֖ם כַּ †...
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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
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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...
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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....
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_Oil. It is very transparent. It seems the Nile was rendered muddy by
cattle, &c._...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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,...
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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...
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LAMENT OVER THE KING OF EGYPT...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 32:14 waters H4325 clear H8257 (H8686) rivers H5104 run H3212
(H8686) oil H8081 Says H5002 ...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:1 This oracle repeats the call to
“lament” (vv. Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16). The poe
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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Ezekiel 34:18; Job 41:1...
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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...