EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:1 This oracle repeats the call to “lament” (vv. Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16). The poem is built around the identification of Pharaoh as a “dragon” (v. Ezekiel 32:2), recalling Ezekiel 29:3 (see note). The date is March 585 B.C., some time after the fall of Jerusalem (see n... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:2 Egypt is a DRAGON, the chaotic beast associated with the Nile’s crocodile (see note on 29:3). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:7 The DARKNESS ON YOUR LAND alludes to the exodus story (see Ezekiel 30:13; also Exodus 10:21). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
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 RIVERS pointing back to v. Ezekiel 32:2. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:17 This is the seventh and final oracle against Egypt and the last of the entire foreign-nation oracle collection. It returns to a theme introduced briefly in an oracle on the sinking of Tyre in Ezekiel 26:20, and already used against Egypt in Ezekiel 31:14, Ezekiel 31:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:19 The Egyptians practiced circumcision. Thus their place with the UNCIRCUMCISED would be cause for deep shame. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:22 ASSYRIA is in the UTTERMOST PARTS of the pit. Ezekiel’s Sheol has levels of shame, and Assyria’s appears to be the deepest. See vv. Ezekiel 32:26. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]