Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 32:20
She is delivered to the sword - Rather, the sword is put forth. Draw her down as one dragged to execution.
She is delivered to the sword - Rather, the sword is put forth. Draw her down as one dragged to execution.
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...
THE DESCENT OF EGYPT TO THE LOWER WORLD. This, the last oracle against Egypt, is unusually fascinating, whether we consider its sombre imagination, its literary power, or its religious importance. It...
SLAIN BY THE SWORD. Note the Figure of speech Cycloidea (App-6), by which these words occur as. refrain twelve times in the following verses (twelve being the number of governmental perfection or comp...
_she is delivered to the sword_ Rather: THE SWORD IS PUT FORTH, lit. _given_, a peculiar phrase and wanting in LXX. _draw her_ i. e. Egypt down into the pit. The simple "draw" leaves rather much to b...
Dirge sung at the interment of Egypt and its multitude Several things are observable in this remarkable passage: 1. It is a funeral dirge primarily over the multitude or nation of Egypt; and so in t...
THEY SHALL FALL, &C.— Houbigant connects this with the preceding verse, thus, [_Be thou laid_] _among these who have fallen by the sword: the sword hath rushed in, and taken her away, and all her mult...
VII. THE DESCENT INTO SHEOL 32:17-32 TRANSLATION (17) And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son of man, wail for t...
They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. SHE IS DELIVERED TO THE SWORD - namely, by God. DRAW HER - as if...
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...
DRAW HER] RV 'draw her away,' to her burial-place in the under-world....
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
DRAW HER. — Viz., down to her judgment....
בְּ תֹ֥וךְ חַלְלֵי ־חֶ֖רֶב יִפֹּ֑לוּ חֶ֣רֶב נ
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
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...
They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: (m) she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. (m) That is, Egypt....
The Prophet seems here to be closing the subject of the humiliation of men and princes, with all the great ones of the earth; and therefore includes in one and the same view the Egyptian, the Assyrian...
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...
THEY SHALL FALL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT ARE SLAIN BY THE SWORD,.... The Egyptians shall fall in battle by the sword of the Chaldeans: SHE IS DELIVERED TO THE SWORD; Egypt is given to the sword, to...
They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. Ver. 20. _They shall fall._] Carcases have their names both in Gree...
_Whom dost thou pass in beauty?_ What reason hast thou to prefer thyself before others? Art thou better than they, that thou shouldest not die and be laid in the dust as well as they? _Go down_ Namely...
DIRGE OVER TILE DESTRUCTION OF TILE EGYPTIAN POWER...
They, namely, Pharaoh and his tumultuous and boastful multitude, SHALL FALL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT ARE SLAIN BY THE SWORD, pierced through in the same slaughter; SHE IS DELIVERED TO THE SWORD, as o...
TO THE SWORD: Or, the sword is laid...
17-32 Divers nations are mentioned as gone down to the grave before Egypt, who are ready to give her a scornful reception; these nations had been lately ruined and wasted. But though Judah and Jerusa...
Now the prophet determines concerning the people, which die as others, fall undistinguished, and. as undistinguished, must be laid in the pit. THEY; the Egyptians. In the midst; in battle shall die. B...
Ezekiel 32:20 fall H5307 (H8799) midst H8432 slain H2491 sword H2719 delivered H5414 (H8738) sword H2719 Drawing
THE SEVENTH ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT. PHARAOH'S FINAL FAREWELL (EZEKIEL 32:17). The descriptions here are not to be thought of as illustrating what the afterlife will be like. The ancients looked on death...
“And so it was also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, wail for the numerous people of Egypt, and cast them down, even her...
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...
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....
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 t...
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...
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
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...
Ezekiel 29:8; Ezekiel 32:23; Ezekiel 32:29; Ezekiel 32:30;...
They — The Egyptians. She — The whole Egyptian kingdom. Draw — And throw them together into the pit....