Ezekiel 32:17

“It came to pass also the twelfth year, &c.] Another prophecy of the like kind was delivered out the same year as before: in the fifteenth day of the month; of the twelfth month, the month Adar, which is not here expressed, because mentioned before, (<263201>Ezekiel 32:1), it was about a fortnight after the other prophecy. The Septuagint and Arabic versions read it, “it came to pass in the twelfth year, the first month, the fifteenth day of the month;” according to which this prophecy was before the other, which is not to be supposed.”

“The second lamentation for Pharaoh. This funeral dirge in imagination accompanies him to the unseen world. Egypt personified in its political head is ideally represented as undergoing the change by death to which man is liable. Expressing that Egypt's supremacy is no more, a thing of the past, never to be again. the month--the twelfth month (Eze 32:1); fourteen days after the former vision.”

“The seventh prophecy against Egypt Ezekiel 32:17-32. A funeral dirge founded on Ezekiel 31:18. The figure is the same as in Isaiah 14:0, where see the notes. In this dirge Pharaoh is especially addressed. The other nations are represented by their kings, the nations’ overthrow being depicted by the king’s body laid low in the grave. The month - i. e., the twelfth (see Ezekiel 32:1). return to 'Top of Page'”

“32:17-32 This last, climactic message against Egypt sums up the whole series of messages against all of the nations.”

“in the twelfth: Eze 32:1, Eze 1:2 the fifteenth: That is, of the twelfth month, just a fortnight after the preceding prophecy. Ezekiel 32:18”

“Funeral-Dirge for the Destruction of the Might of Egypt This second lamentation or mourning ode, according to the heading in Eze 32:17, belongs to the same year as the preceding, and to the 15th of the month, no doubt the 12th month; in which case it was composed only fourteen days after the first. The statement of the month is omitted here, as in Eze 26:1; and the omission is, no doubt, to be attributed to a copyist in this instance also. In the ode, which Ewald aptly describes as a "dull, heavy lamentation," we have six regular strophes, preserving the uniform and monotonous character of the lamentations for the dead, in which the thought is worked out, that Egypt, like other great…”