Ezekiel Chapter 32 verse 17 Holy Bible
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth `day' of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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And in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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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,
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It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - For yet fourteen days the mind of the prophet brooded over the fall of Egypt, and his thoughts at last found utterance in another lamentation, based upon that of Isaiah 14. Taken together, the two passages give a vivid picture of the thoughts of the Hebrews as to the unseen world, and we find in them the germs of the later belief of Judaism in Paradise and Gehenna. What I have called the Dante element in Ezekiel it seen here raised to its highest power. Ver 18. - Cast them down, etc. The prophet thinks of himself as not only the predictor, but the minister, of the Divine judgments. So it was given to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:10) "to root out and to pull down," and to Amos (Amos 9:1) to "smite" and to wound. He executes the sentence, not on Egypt only, but on the other daughters of the famous nations, sc. on the nations themselves, especially those that are named in the verses that follow.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) The fifteenth day of the month.--The month itself is not mentioned, but since the previous prophecy was in the twelfth, or last month of the year, this must be in the same. There was thus an interval of just fourteen days between them. This dirge, which occupies the rest of the chapter, is to be compared with Isaiah 14, on which it is evidently founded.
