Ezekiel 32:7
in Ezekiel 32When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
KJV
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
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This verse in Ezekiel 32
Commentary
6 notes on this verseI will cover the heaven - Destroy the empire. Make the stars thereof dark - Overwhelm all the dependent states. I will cover the sun - The king himself. And the moon shall not give her light - The queen may be meant, or some state less than the kingdom.
This site's exposition
cover the heaven
on Ezekiel 32:7-8
The fall of one king darkens the sky itself, the sun covered. Henry and JFB both read the language as the standard prophetic idiom for the collapse of a great power. Keil adds that the darkening answers Egypt's own boast in its light-giving gods, now extinguished at the Lord's word.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Chapter XXXII, verse 1 and following) And it was in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month (or tenth), on one day (the Vulgate is silent on the day) of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: You are like a lion among the nations, and like a dragon in the sea; you stirred up your horns in your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and trampled their (or your) rivers.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The heavens shall be hung with black, the stars darkened, the sun eclipsed, and the moon be deprived of her borrowed light. It is from the upper world that this lower receives its light; and therefore (
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And when I shall put thee out,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
put thee out--extinguish thy light (Job 18:5). Pharaoh is represented as a bright star, at the extinguishing of whose light in the political sky the whole heavenly host is shrouded in sympathetic darkness. Here, too, as in Eze 32:6, there is an allusion to the supernatural darkness sent formerly (Ex 10:21-23).
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The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכִסֵּיתִ֤י | vekhiseiti | and I will cover | H3680 → | 152 times |
| בְכַבּֽוֹתְךָ֙ | vekhabotkha | when extinguishing you | H3518 → | 24 times |
| שָׁמַ֔יִם | shamayim | heavens | H8064 → | 421 times |
| וְהִקְדַּרְתִּ֖י | vehikdarti | and I will darken | H6937 → | 17 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כֹּֽכְבֵיהֶ֑ם | kokheveihem | stars their | H3556 → | |
| שֶׁ֚מֶשׁ | shemesh | [the] sun | H8121 → | |
| בֶּעָנָ֣ן | beanan | with <the> cloud | H6051 → | 87 times |
| אֲכַסֶּ֔נּוּ | ʾakhasenu | I will cover it | H3680 → | 152 times |
| וְיָרֵ֖חַ | veyareach | and [the] moon | H3394 → | |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יָאִ֥יר | yair | it will give light | H215 → | |
| אוֹרֽוֹ׃ | ʾoro | light its | H216 → |
וְכִסֵּיתִ֤יand I will cover
vekhiseitiH3680 →152 times
בְכַבּֽוֹתְךָ֙when extinguishing you
vekhabotkhaH3518 →24 times
שָׁמַ֔יִםheavens
shamayimH8064 →421 times
וְהִקְדַּרְתִּ֖יand I will darken
vehikdartiH6937 →17 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
כֹּֽכְבֵיהֶ֑םstars their
kokheveihemH3556 →
שֶׁ֚מֶשׁ[the] sun
shemeshH8121 →
בֶּעָנָ֣ןwith <the> cloud
beananH6051 →87 times
אֲכַסֶּ֔נּוּI will cover it
ʾakhasenuH3680 →152 times
וְיָרֵ֖חַand [the] moon
veyareachH3394 →
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
יָאִ֥ירit will give light
yairH215 →
אוֹרֽוֹ׃light its
ʾoroH216 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will…
it leads to
- Joel 3:15
The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Mark 13:24–25
But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
- Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
- Joel 3:15
Through
Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
it leads to
- Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will…
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 6:12–13
And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
- Matthew 24:29
Through
Isaiah 34:4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig…
it leads to
- Revelation 6:13–14
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
- Ezekiel 32:7–8
When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 6:13–14
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.
