Ezekiel 32:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. ”

Ezekiel 32:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on the land. Some render “height,” “foulness.”
Ezekiel 32:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Ezekiel 32:5 - 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 32:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

height . thy high heap i.e. of thy slain.
Ezekiel 32:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. And fill the valleys with thy height - Some translate, with the worms, which should proceed from the putrefaction of...
Ezekiel 32:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

With thy height— Or, With thy bulk. Houbigant renders it, With thy stench.
Ezekiel 32:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. I will ... fill the valleys with thy height - thy hugeness (Fairbairn). The multitude of thy forces, on whic...
Ezekiel 32:5 - 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 32:5 - 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 32:5 - 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 32:5 - 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 32:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains ,.... The remainder of it, left by the birds and beasts of prey, and who might carry it thither; or it intends such of the Egyptians who should flee to th...
Ezekiel 32:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. Ver. 5. With thy height. ] Celsitudine tua; a with thy glory, which thou holdest dearer than thy flesh or li...
Ezekiel 32:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will spread out my net over thee , &c. I will bring thine enemies upon thee, who shall encompass thee on every side, and master thee as a wild beast or monstrous fish is taken in a net. Then...
Ezekiel 32:5 - 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 32:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Will lay; throw or cast. Thy flesh; the carcasses of thy slain men and soldiers. Upon the mountains; whither they retired for safety. Fill the valleys ; not so fill them as to equal them in he...
Ezekiel 32:5 - 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 32:5 - 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 32:5 - 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 32:5 - 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 32:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lament over the King of Egypt
Ezekiel 32:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 2:24
Ezekiel 32:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

With thy height — With the carcasses of thy princes.

Ezekiel 32:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 32:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 32:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 32:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 32:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 32:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 32:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 32:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 32:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 32:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 32:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 32:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 32:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes