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Ezekiel 32:7

in Ezekiel 32

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.

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.

This verse in Ezekiel 32

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

I 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

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 24:29

    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…

    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.

  • Through

    Joel 2:31

    The 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,

  • Through

    Isaiah 34:4

    All 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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.