Ezekiel 32:3
in Ezekiel 32This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
KJV
Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
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This verse in Ezekiel 32
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
I will spread My net over you
on Ezekiel 32:3-6
The image shifts from cedar to river beast. His flesh is laid upon the mountains, an image Fairbairn reads as the corpse itself covering the ground like a fallen mountain range. Clarke adds that watering the land with thy blood plays on Egypt's own dependence on the Nile's flood.
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 Awakening1 voice
Thus saith the Lord God,....
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּ֤ה | koh | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַר֙ | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֣י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִ֔ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
| וּפָרַשְׂתִּ֤י | ufarasti | and I will spread | H6566 → | 67 times |
| עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ | ʾaleikha | over you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| רִשְׁתִּ֔י | rishti | net my | H7568 → | 22 times |
| בִּקְהַ֖ל | bikhal | by a company of | H6951 → | 123 times |
| עַמִּ֣ים | ʾamim | peoples | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| רַבִּ֑ים | rabim | many | H7227 → | 454 times |
| וְהֶעֱל֖וּךָ | veheelukha | and they will bring up you | H5927 → | 890 times |
| בְּחֶרְמִֽי׃ | bechermi | in net my | H2764 → | 38 times |
כֹּ֤הthus
kohH3541 →577 times
אָמַר֙he says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִ֔הYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
וּפָרַשְׂתִּ֤יand I will spread
ufarastiH6566 →67 times
עָלֶ֙יךָ֙over you
ʾaleikhaH5921 →5755 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
רִשְׁתִּ֔יnet my
rishtiH7568 →22 times
בִּקְהַ֖לby a company of
bikhalH6951 →123 times
עַמִּ֣יםpeoples
ʾamimH5971 →1873 times
רַבִּ֑יםmany
rabimH7227 →454 times
וְהֶעֱל֖וּךָand they will bring up you
veheelukhaH5927 →890 times
בְּחֶרְמִֽי׃in net my
bechermiH2764 →38 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
Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
it leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- Luke 21:34–36
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3
Through
Jeremiah 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain…
it leads to
- Habakkuk 1:14–15
You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
- Amos 4:2
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- Revelation 6:15–17
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- Habakkuk 1:14–15
Through
Ezekiel 12:13But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and…
it leads to
- Hosea 7:12
As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
- Hosea 7:12
Through
Hosea 7:12As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 12:13
But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and…
- Ezekiel 12:13
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.