Ezekiel 32

Ezekiel 32
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Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from the early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
Book	Book of Ezekiel
Hebrew Bible part	Nevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part	7
Category	Latter Prophets
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	26

Ezekiel 32 is the thirty-second chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. ^[1] This chapter contains two revelations from God regarding Egypt and its Pharaoh, concluding Ezekiel's prophecies against Egypt (chapters 29-32). ^[2]

Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 32 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008). ^[3]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^Q; 6th century). ^{[4] [lower-alpha 1]}

Verse 1

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^[6]

The date corresponds to 3 March, 586 or 585 BCE, based on an analysis by German theologian Bernhard Lang. ^[7] The New Living Translation makes explicit reference to 3 March as the date. ^[8]

Verse 2

"Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

‘You are like a young lion among the nations,

And you are like a monster in the seas,

Bursting forth in your rivers,

Troubling the waters with your feet,

And fouling their rivers." ^[9]

• "Son of man" (Hebrew: בן־אדם ḇen - ’ā-ḏām ): this phrase is used 93 times to address Ezekiel. ^[10]
• "Pharaoh" (Hebrew: פרעה par-‘ōh ; Egyptian: pr-±o, "great house"; Greek: Φαραω, Pharao): the title of ancient Egyptian kings, of royal court, and (in new kingdom) of the king, until the Persian invasion. ^{[11] [12]}

Verse 17

It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ^[13]

The date, depending on the month, corresponds to a day between April 27, 586 BCE to March 17, 585 BCE, based on the analysis by Bernhard Lang. ^[7] The New Living Translation assumes the month is the same as in verse 1, so this revelation would have been heard on 17 March 585 BCE. ^[14]

Verse 27

They do not lie with the mighty

Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,

Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;

They have laid their swords under their heads,

But their iniquities will be on their bones,

Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. (NKJV) ^[15]

Egypt will join other nations which were judged by God in "the depths of the earth" ("Pit" or "Sheol"). ^[16]

See also

• Assyria
• Edom
• Elam
• Egypt
• Meshech
• Pharaoh
• Sidon
• Tubal

• Related Bible parts: Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 29, Ezekiel 30, Ezekiel 31

Notes

1. Ezekiel is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus. ^[5]

References

1. Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
2. Davidson, A. B. (1893), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Ezekiel 29, accessed 24 December 2019
3. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
4. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
5. Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 13. ISBN   978-0825444593.
6. Ezekiel 32:1: NKJV
7. Lang, Bernhard (1981) Ezechiel. Darmstadt. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesselschaft, cited in Kee et al 2008, p. 210.
8. Ezekiel 32:1: NLT
9. Ezekiel 32:2 NKJV
10. Bromiley 1995, p. 574.
11. Brown, Briggs & Driver 1994 "פַּרְעֹה"
12. Gesenius 1979 "פַּרְעֹה"
13. Ezekiel 32:17: NKJV
14. Ezekiel 32:17: NLT
15. Ezekiel 32:27
16. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1225-1227 Hebrew Bible. ISBN   978-0195288810

Bibliography

• Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1995). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: vol. iv, Q-Z. Eerdmans. ISBN   9780802837844.
• Brown, Francis; Briggs, Charles A.; Driver, S. R. (1994). The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (reprint ed.). Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN   978-1565632066.
• Clements, Ronald E (1996). Ezekiel. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN   9780664252724.
• Gesenius, H. W. F. (1979). Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index. Translated by Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux (7th ed.). Baker Book House.
• Joyce, Paul M. (2009). Ezekiel: A Commentary. Continuum. ISBN   9780567483614.
• Kee, Howard Clark; Meyers, Eric M.; Rogerson, John; Levine, Amy-Jill; Saldarini, Anthony J. (2008). Chilton, Bruce (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (2, revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521691406.
• Würthwein, Ernst (1995). The Text of the Old Testament. Translated by Rhodes, Erroll F. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN   0-8028-0788-7 . Retrieved January 26, 2019.

External links

Jewish

• Ezekiel 32 Hebrew with Parallel English
• Ezekiel 32 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary

Christian

• Ezekiel 32 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate Archived 2017-04-20 at the Wayback Machine