
TAWG - August 18, 2024 - Ezekiel 32:1-32
August 18, 2024
Ezekiel 32:1-32
32:1-16 | In March 585 BC, about nine months after the fall of Jerusalem, Ezekiel delivered this funeral dirge over Egypt. The great nation in whom Judah had trusted would not rise, but would sink into obscurity, desolate and destitute.
32:17-32 | In 585 BC, Ezekiel compares Egypt to all the other once-proud nations that had struck fear into the hearts of the region’s population: Assyria, Elam, Meshech and Tubal, Edom, and the Sidonians. All of them had gone down to defeat and now lay in the Pit, the place of the dead – exactly where Egypt also was headed (Isa. 18:6).
32:19 | To be placed with the uncircumcised meant to languish in a place of dishonor, far from the favor of God. It is closely related to the idea of bearing shame.