Eze 32:1
32:1 And it came to pass in the {a} twelfth year, in the twelfth
     month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of
     the LORD came to me, saying,

     (a) Which was the first year of the general captivity under
         Zedekiah.

Eze 32:2
32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of
     Egypt, and say to him, Thou art like a young {b} lion of
     the nations, and thou [art] as a whale in the seas: and
     thou didst come forth with thy rivers, and didst {c}
     trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst foul their
     rivers.

     (b) Thus the scriptures compare tyrants to cruel and huge
         beasts which devour all that are weaker than they and
         such as they may overcome.
     (c) You prepared great armies.

Eze 32:5
32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the
     valleys {d} with thy height.

     (d) With heaps of the carcass of your army.

Eze 32:6
32:6 I will also water with thy blood the land in which thou {e}
     swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be
     full of thee.

     (e) As the Nile overflows in Egypt, so will I make the
         blood of your host overflow it.

Eze 32:7
32:7 And when I shall {f} put thee out, I will cover the heaven,
     and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud,
     and the moon shall not give her light.

     (f) The word signifies to be put out as a candle is put
         out.

Eze 32:8
32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee,
     and set {g} darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

     (g) By this manner of speech is meant the great sorrow that
         will be for the slaughter of the king and his people.

Eze 32:12
32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to
      fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they
      shall lay waste the {h} pomp of Egypt, and all its
      multitude shall be destroyed.

      (h) This came to pass in less than four years after this
          prophecy.

Eze 32:14
32:14 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.

Eze 32:18
32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and {k} cast
      them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous
      nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with them that
      go down into the pit.

      (k) That is, prophecy that they will be cast down: thus
          the Lord gives his prophets power both to plant and to
          destroy by his word, read @Jer 1:10.

Eze 32:19
32:19 Whom dost thou pass {l} in beauty? go down, and be thou
      laid with the uncircumcised.

      (l) Have not other kingdoms more beautiful than you
          perished?

Eze 32:20
32:20 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.

Eze 32:21
32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to {n} him out of
      the midst of the grave with them that help him: they are
      gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

      (n) To make the matter more sensible, he brings in Pharaoh
          whom the dead will meet and marvel at him, read
          @Isa 14:9.

Eze 32:24
32:24 There [is] {o} Elam and all her multitude around her
      grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are
      gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth,
      who caused their terror in the land of the {p} living; yet
      have they borne their shame with them that go down to the
      pit.

      (o) Meaning the Persians.
      (p) Whom in his life all the world feared.

Eze 32:26
32:26 There [is] {q} Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her
      graves [are] around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain
      by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land
      of the living.

      (q) That is, the Capadocians and Italians or Spaniards, as
          Josephus writes.

Eze 32:27
32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen
      {r} of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to the grave
      with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords
      under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon
      their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty
      in the land of the living.

      (r) Who died not by cruel death but by the course of
          nature, and are honourably buried with their coat of
          armour and signs of honour.

Eze 32:30
32:30 There [are] the princes of the {s} north, all of them, and
      all the Zidonians, who are gone down with the slain; with
      their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie
      uncircumcised with [them that are] slain by the sword, and
      bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.

      (s) The kings of Babylon.

Eze 32:31
32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be {t} comforted over
      all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain
      by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

      (t) As the wicked rejoice when they see others partakers
          of their miseries.

Eze 32:32
32:32 For I have caused my {u} terror in the land of the living:
      and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised
      with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh
      and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

      (u) I will make the Egyptians afraid of me, as they caused
          others to fear them.



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