Ezekiel 32:31-32 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

This prophecy concludes and completes the burden of Egypt, and leaves it and all its multitude in the pit of destruction. I. We are here invited to attend the funeral of that once flourishing kingdom, to lament its fall, and to take a view of those who attend it to the grave and accompany it in the grave. 1. This dead corpse of a kingdom is here brought to the grave. The prophet is ordered to cast them down to the pit (Ezek. 32:18), to foretel their destruction as one that had authority, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over his multitude ,.... That is, when Pharaoh is brought to the grave, and into the state of the dead, he shall look about him, and see who lie by him; and he shall behold the above mentioned kings of Assyria, Persia, Idumea, and the princes of Tyre and Zidon, and all their mighty armies, generals and soldiers, in the same condition with himself; and this shall be some solace to him in his own death, and at the loss of so great a kingdom, such... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:32

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living ,.... Or, "his terror" F6 חתיתו "terrorem ejus", Grotius; "consternationem ejus", Starckius. ; there is a double reading. The Keri or marginal reading, which we follow has it "my terror" F7 חתיתי "terrorem meum", Pagninus, Munster, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus. ; but the Cetib or writing is his terror; and so read the Septuagint. Syriac, and Arabic versions; both may be taken, and the sense be, I have... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh shall see them - Pharaoh also, who said he was a god, shall be found among the vulgar dead. And shalt be comforted - Shall console himself, on finding that all other proud boasters are in the same circumstances with himself. Here is a reference to a consciousness after death. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:32

I have caused my terror in the land of the living - I have spread dismay through Judea, the land of the living God, where the living oracles were delivered, and where the upright live by faith. When Pharaoh-necho came against Josiah, defeated, and slew him at Megiddo, fear and terror were spread through all the land of Judea; and the allusion here is probably to that circumstance. But even he is now laid with the uncircumcised, and is no more to be distinguished from the common dead. Much... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

The gathering of the guilty nations in Hades. This vision of the poet-prophet is one of the boldest and most sublime in the whole compass of literature. As a lofty flight of imagination it excites the wonder and admiration of every reader gifted with poetical appreciation. Ezekiel is bringing to a close his prophecies regarding the nations by which the land of Israel was encompassed. How far from the narrowness and the lack of sympathy sometimes attributed to the Hebrews was the prophet of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

Companionship in woe. The prophet is a man of power. He is a king bearing an invisible scepter. As a monarch wields only a borrowed power—a power lent by God—so a true prophet is God's vicegerent. Here he unfolds a terrible vision, the outline of a woeful reality. He leads the Egyptian king to the mouth of a vast abyss, in which lie multitudes of the vanquished and the slain. He is invited to contemplate the condition of those thus dishonored by the King of Babylon. And he is forewarned... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

A vision of the unseen world. In this highly figurative prophetic utterance we have— I. THE PROPHET 'S VISION ITSELF . He sees Egypt taking her place, as a fallen power, amongst the departed in the nether world. Nothing could save her; there was no reason why she should not go down as other guilty powers had done, "Whom did she pass in beauty?" ( Ezekiel 32:19 ). No distinction could be made in her case; she must "go down and be laid with the uncircumcised" ( Ezekiel 32:19 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:31

Shall be comforted , etc. (comp. for the thought, Ezekiel 31:16 ). That shall be all that he will have to console him. As before, other nations were comforted by the downfall of Egypt, so Egypt in her turn finds her comfort in their downfall. All are sharers alike in the fiend-like temper which exults in the miseries of others. Ewald and Hitzig, here as there, take the word as in the sense of "mourning overse" As to the extent and manner in which the predictions of the chapter have been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh comforted. After his death Pharaoh is comforted by what he beholds of his companions in the realm of departed spirits. He sees that the great ones who preceded him are as badly off as he is. Those kings and princes were not his enemies; they were his allies. Therefore Pharaoh could scarcely gain comfort from a malignant satisfaction in seeing them degraded. Accordingly, Hengstenberg understands the passage to say that Pharaoh sighs. But might he not find some consolation in the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 32:32

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:32

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:17-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:31

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 32:31

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