Ezekiel 32:13
in Ezekiel 32I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
KJV
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
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This verse in Ezekiel 32
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The picture is ideally true, not to be interpreted by the letter. The political ascendency of Egypt was to cease with the Chaldean conquest [FAIRBAIRN]. Henceforth Pharaoh must figuratively no longer trouble the waters by man or beast, that is, no longer was he to flood other peoples with his overwhelming forces.
This site's exposition
The sword of the king of Babylon
on Ezekiel 32:11-14
The instrument is finally named without figure, the sword of the king of Babylon. Verse 14 closes the thought with rivers running like oil, a stillness Keil reads as the peace of an emptied land. Fairbairn notes that Egypt did in fact suffer a real, datable Babylonian campaign under Nebuchadnezzar.
This site's exposition
slaughter all her cattle beside the
Egypt's cattle grazed on the meadows beside the abundant waters of the Nile, and Genesis 47:6 records Pharaoh's own livestock kept in Goshen. The slaughter strikes food and wealth together. The rivers muddied by feet in verse 2 lie still.
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
), either cut off by the sword or carried off for a prey. Egypt was famous for horses, which would be an acceptable booty to the Chaldeans. The rivers shall be no more frequented as they have been by man and beast, that came thither to drink.
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I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters,....
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
from beside..waters of other countries that you used to sully.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
I shall sink their waters The foot of cattle will not make it murky, and the mud will sink, so that the water will be clear and clean like refined oil.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּי֙ | vehaavadti | and I will destroy | H6 → | 184 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| בְּהֶמְתָּ֔הּ | behemtah | livestock its | H929 → | 190 times |
| מֵעַ֖ל | meal | from at | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| מַ֣יִם | mayim | waters | H4325 → | 581 times |
| רַבִּ֑ים | rabim | many | H7227 → | 454 times |
| וְלֹ֨א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִדְלָחֵ֤ם | tidlachem | it will make turbid them | H1804 → | 3 times |
| רֶֽגֶל־ | regel- | a foot of | H7272 → | 247 times |
| אָדָם֙ | ʾadam | a human | H120 → | 551 times |
| ע֔וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| וּפַרְס֥וֹת | ufarsot | and hooves of | H6541 → | |
| בְּהֵמָ֖ה | behemah | livestock | H929 → | 190 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִדְלָחֵֽם׃ | tidlachem | it will make turbid them | H1804 → | 3 times |
וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּי֙and I will destroy
vehaavadtiH6 →184 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
בְּהֶמְתָּ֔הּlivestock its
behemtahH929 →190 times
מֵעַ֖לfrom at
mealH5921 →5755 times
מַ֣יִםwaters
mayimH4325 →581 times
רַבִּ֑יםmany
rabimH7227 →454 times
וְלֹ֨אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
תִדְלָחֵ֤םit will make turbid them
tidlachemH1804 →3 times
רֶֽגֶל־a foot of
regel-H7272 →247 times
אָדָם֙a human
ʾadamH120 →551 times
ע֔וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
וּפַרְס֥וֹתand hooves of
ufarsotH6541 →
בְּהֵמָ֖הlivestock
behemahH929 →190 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תִדְלָחֵֽם׃it will make turbid them
tidlachemH1804 →3 times
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
Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 29:3
Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says,…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nahum 2:11–13
Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
- Ezekiel 27:2
“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
- Ezekiel 28:12
“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect…
- Ezekiel 32:16
This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 29:3
Through
Ezekiel 34:18Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear…
it leads to
- Matthew 23:13
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- Luke 11:52
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
- Matthew 23:13
Through
Ezekiel 29:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 14:17
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.