_In the eleventh year, in the third month_, &c. This was another revelation upon the subject of the destruction of Egypt, imparted two months after that which is mentioned in the conclusion of the foregoing chapter. _Whom art thou like in thy greatness?_ Thou pridest thyself, as if there never was a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold the Assyrian_ This, says Archbishop Secker, seems an admonitory comparison of Pharaoh to the late Assyrian monarch, applied to Pharaoh, Ezekiel 31:18. By _the Assyrian_, compared here to a tall and fair cedar, such as grew in mount Lebanon, Archbishop Usher and Dr. Prideaux understand that k... [ Continue Reading ]
_Because thou hast lifted up thyself_ Because thy pride hath still increased with thy prosperity. _I have delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen_ Or, _the mighty one of the nations_, as the word גוים is rendered in the next verse. The word אל, _eel_, here rendered _mighty one_,... [ Continue Reading ]
_In the day when he went down to the grave_ This, and the following verses, are an elegant description of that consternation that seized the king of Assyria's allies, at the suddenness of his downfall; the same metaphor being still pursued. _I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him_ The deep,... [ Continue Reading ]
_I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall_ Through fear and terror. _When I cast him down to hell_ Rather, to the grave; _with them that descend into the pit_ That die and are buried. _All the trees of Eden_, &c. The greatest kings on earth. _All that drink water _ That partake of wealth... [ Continue Reading ]
_To whom art thou thus like in glory?_ &c. To whom, among the great princes of the world, canst thou, O king of Egypt, be so fitly compared, with all thy glory and greatness, as to this king of Assyria, since, like him, thou shalt be thrown down from all thy pomp and grandeur to the lowest state of... [ Continue Reading ]