Ezekiel 32:18

“Son of man, sing mournfully over the multitude of Egypt. And cast her down, both her and the daughters of the robust nations, to the lowest part of the earth, with those who descend into the pit.

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In The King James Version

Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

In Context

17And it happened that, in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying:

19Whom do you exceed in beauty? Descend and sleep with the uncircumcised!

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Cross References

Psalms 30:9And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.

Isaiah 14:15Yet truly, you shall be dragged down to Hell, into the depths of the pit.

Jeremiah 1:10Behold, today I have appointed you over nations and over kingdoms, so that you may root up, and pull down, and destroy, and scatter, and so that you may build and plant.”

Ezekiel 26:20and when I will have dragged you down with those who descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and when I will have assembled you in the lowest parts of the earth, like the desolate places of antiquity, with those who have been brought down into the pit, so that you will be uninhabited, and moreover, when I will have given glory to the land of the living:

Ezekiel 31:16I shook the Gentiles with the sound of his ruin, when I led him down to hell, with those who were descending into the pit. And all the trees of delights, the finest and best in Lebanon, all that were irrigated with waters, were consoled in the deepest parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 32:12By the swords of the strong, I will cast down your multitude. All these nations are invincible, and they will lay waste to the arrogance of Egypt, and so its multitude will be destroyed.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 32:18-32

The Fall of Egypt; Egypt's Destruction Completed. ( b. c. 587.) 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are… Read the whole commentary →

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