Ezekiel 32:17-32
Summary for Ezek 32:17-32: 32:17-32 a This last, climactic message against Egypt sums up the whole series of messages against all of the nations.Summary for Ezek 32:18-20: 32:18-20 b In an earlier message (31:17-18 c), God had declared that Egypt would go down to join the other nations in the underworld. Here that idea is expanded. Egypt’s destination was with the outcasts, along with those who fell by the sword. This place of horror, the pit, was already populated by many nations that once wielded power but had now gone down to destruction (cp. Isa 14:9-11 d).
Summary for Ezek 32:21-30: 32:21-30 e Assyria ... Elam ... Meshech and Tubal ... Edom ... the princes of the north and the Sidonians: These nations that once struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere were now shadowy figures, spent forces in a world without meaning or joy. Assyria had been conquered by the Babylonians and Medes between 627 and 609 BC and had been removed from its previous status as a superpower.
Summary for Ezek 32:31-32: 32:31-32 f Pharaoh and all the power of Egypt will share a similar fate. For the time appointed by God, Pharaoh caused his terror to fall upon all the living, yet when God decided to act, Egypt’s power would be broken once and for all.
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