Ezekiel 32:17--33:20
<08147> [in the twelfth.]
fifteenth <02568> [the fifteenth.]
That is, of the twelfth month, just a fortnight after the preceding prophecy.
wail <05091> [wail.]
down ...................... descend <03381> [cast.]
That is, predict that they shall be cast down.
daughters <01323> [the daughters.]
The cities and colonies of the celebrated nations afterwards enumerated.
lower parts <08482> [unto the.]
surpass <05276> [dost.]
down <03381> [go.]
uncircumcised <06189> [with.]
fall <05307> [fall.]
by ... sword ... sword <05414 02719> [she is delivered to the sword. or, the sword is laid. draw.]
bravest <0410> [strong.]
Pharaoh is here represented as descending into the regions of the dead, whither many mighty warriors and potentates had gone before him, who welcome him to their dreary mansion.
down <03381> [gone.]
[Assur.]
graves <06913> [graves.]
The niches in the sides of the subterranean burying places.
spread <05414> [which.]
terror <02851> [terror. or, dismaying. the land.]
Elam <05867> [Elam.]
down ............................. descend <03381> [which are.]
spread <05414> [which caused.]
bear <05375> [borne.]
made ... bed .............................................. placed <05414 04904> [set her.]
bed <04904> [a bed.]
A cell, or bier, in the sepulchral vault, in which the corpse was deposited.
uncircumcised <06189> [all of them.]
terror <02851> [though.]
Meshech-Tubal <04902> [Meshech.]
Supposed to be the Moschi, a people between Iberia and Armenia, from whom, probably the Muscovites are descended.
Meshech-Tubal <08422> [Tubal.]
Probably the Tibarenians, a people of Pontus, west of the Moschians.
uncircumcised <06189> [all of.]
spread <05414> [caused.]
lie <07901> [shall not.]
Sheol <07585> [to hell.]
That is, to the grave; and are buried in their armour, with their weapons lying by their sides, as was a very ancient practice in various nations.
weapons ... war <04421 03627> [their weapons of war. Heb. weapons of their war.]
shields <05771> [but.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
Despite <05414> [laid. Heb. given, or put.]
leaders <05257> [the princes.]
The kings of Media, Armenia, and other nations north of Chaldea, or of the Syrians and others north of Judah, with "all the Zidonians," kings of Zidon, Tyre, and other cities of Phoenicia.
bear <05375> [and bear.]
Pharaoh ... see ................ Pharaoh <06547 07200> [Pharaoh shall.]
Pharaoh, who said he was a god, shall be found among the dead.
consoled <05162> [shall be.]
Shall console himself, when he sees all these mighty nations and proud conquerors in the same condition as himself.
speak <01696> [speak.]
bring ... sword .... land ....... land ... one <02719 0776 0259 0935> [When I bring the sword upon a land. Heb. A land when I bring a sword upon her.]
make <05414> [set.]
blows <08628> [he blow.]
[Am 3.6 1Co 14.8]
hears <08085> [whosoever heareth. Heb. he that hearing heareth.]
death <01818> [his blood.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
himself <01818> [his blood.]
warning ............. warning <02094> [But.]
blow <08628> [and blow.]
takes ........ swept away <03947> [he is.]
<01818> [his blood.]
I ... made you <05414> [I have.]
hear <08085> [thou shalt.]
wicked ... wicked ............. wicked ...... wicked man ....... but <07563> [O wicked.]
about <01696> [if thou.]
wicked ... wicked ............. wicked ...... wicked man ....... but <07563> [that wicked.]
warn <02094> [if thou.]
change ........ change <07725> [if he.]
saved <05337> [thou hast.]
rebellious <06588> [If our.]
The impenitent Jews seem to have charged the prophet's messages with inconsistency: for whilst he warned them to repent, and assured the penitent of forgiveness, he also predicted that the people "would pine away in their transgressions." The prediction, however, merely implied that God foresaw that the people in general would be impenitent, though some individuals would repent and be pardoned.
live <02421> [how.]
surely <02416> [As I live.]
pleasure <02654> [I have.]
change ....... back ... back .... evil <07725 07451> [turn ye.]
say <0559> [say.]
righteousness <06666> [The righteousness.]
wickedness <07564> [as for.]
righteous .......................... righteous <06662> [neither.]
confident <0982> [if he.]
die <04191> [he shall die.]
must certainly die <04191> [Thou shalt.]
turns from <07725> [if he.]
just ... right <04941 06666> [that which is lawful and right. Heb. judgment and justice.]
returns <07725> [restore.]
"The sin is not forgiven, unless that which is taken away be restored," says Augustine.
pays <07999> [give.]
<01980> [walk.]
certainly live ..... die <02421 04191> [he shall.]
say <0559> [Yet.]
judge <08199> [I will.]
