Ezekiel 32:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. ”

Ezekiel 32:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A promise of a return of God’s favor. This concerns not the restoration of Egypt’s original power, but the establishment of the Divine Ruler in the place of a pagan God-opposing power.
Ezekiel 32:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Ezekiel 32:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Dirge over Pharaoh. A dirge is now sung over Pharaoh, in which he is likened, as before ( Ezekiel 29:3 ), to a crocodile brutal and turbulent; but Yahweh will catch him in His net, and hurl his...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

deep . subside.
Ezekiel 32:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. Cause their rivers to run like oil - Bring the whole state into quietness, there being no longer a poli...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then will I make, &c.— Then will I make their waters to rest, or subside, and cause their rivers to glide smoothly like oil, &c.
Ezekiel 32:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. Then will I make their waters deep - rather, 'then will I make their waters to subside' х 'as...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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....
Ezekiel 32:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deep should rather be rendered quiet. When the restless ambition of Egypt should be curbed, there would come about peace and quiet prosperity. This is thought by many to be a glance forward at th...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1-21 ; Ezekiel 30:1-26 ; Ezekiel 31:1-18 ; Ezekiel 32:1-32 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power cherishing projects of universal dominion. Once...
Ezekiel 32:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 th...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I cannot but believe, though the thing is not plainly revealed, that the Lord hath in this place a spiritual meaning, and which is principally intended by these scriptures. Surely Ezekiel ministry wo...
Ezekiel 32:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then will l make their waters deep ,.... Either the water, of Egypt literally, the waters of the Nile: no canals being cut from it, to carry the water to the several parts of the land, the land bein...
Ezekiel 32:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 14. Then will I make their waters deep. ] There shall not be men left to drive them by ditches...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will also destroy the beasts thereof Their horses, in which they trusted so much, Isaiah 31:3 , and other cattle, feeding in their rich pastures by the river sides. Neither shall the foot of ma...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Fall of Egypt; Lamentation for Pharaoh. B. C. 587. 1 And it came to pass in the twel...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Make their waters deep: the sense literally this, the waters undisturbed shall be clear, the mud settled at the bottom, and the waters above it of good depth. To run like oil; smooth and softly,...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sixth Oracle. A Lament Over Pharaoh and Egypt ( Ezekiel 32:1-16 ). The date of the oracle is March 585 BC. It follows the destruction of Jerusalem. The versions vary, seeking to alter the date...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 overthrow...
Ezekiel 32:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 repenta...
Ezekiel 32:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 32:1-26 and Ezekiel 32:1...
Ezekiel 32:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lament over the King of Egypt
Ezekiel 32:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:18 ; Job 41:1
Ezekiel 32:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Like oil — A figurative expression, signifying, there shall be such an universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation, that the very rivers which used to flow briskly, shall grow deep, and s...

Ezekiel 32:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 32:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 32:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 32:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 32:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 32:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 32:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 32:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 32:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 32:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 32:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 32:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes