Ezekiel 32:32

32 "I caused the king of Egypt to terrorize the living, but he and all his army will be killed and laid to rest with all the uncircumcised who die in battle." The Sovereign Lord has spoken.

Ezekiel 32:32 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 32:32

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living
Or, "his terror" ^F6; there is a double reading. The Keri or marginal reading, which we follow has it "my terror" ^F7; but the Cetib or writing is his terror; and so read the Septuagint. Syriac, and Arabic versions; both may be taken, and the sense be, I have caused or suffered him, Pharaoh king of Egypt, to be a terror to the nations about him, particularly to the land of Israel, which the Targum expressly mentions as the land of the living; and now I will terrify him who has terrified others: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those that
are slain with the sword;
shall have a common burial with other Heathen nations; even with such, who, in a way of judgment, have perished by the sword of their victorious enemies, as he will: even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God;
the king of Egypt, his subjects, and his soldiers, as numerous as they are; and thus ends this doleful ditty, and funeral dirge or lamentation, composed, taken up, and sung for Pharaoh as ordered, thereby to assure him of his certain destruction.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wtytx) "terrorem ejus", Grotius; "consternationem ejus", Starckius.
F7 (ytytx) "terrorem meum", Pagninus, Munster, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus.

Ezekiel 32:32 In-Context

30 "All the princes of the north are there, and so are the Sidonians. Their power once spread terror, but now they go down in disgrace with those killed in battle and are laid to rest, uncircumcised. They share the disgrace of those who go down to the world of the dead.

31 "The sight of all these who were killed in battle will be a comfort to the king of Egypt and his army," says the Sovereign Lord.

32 "I caused the king of Egypt to terrorize the living, but he and all his army will be killed and laid to rest with all the uncircumcised who die in battle." The Sovereign Lord has spoken.