Ezekiel 32:6
in Ezekiel 32I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains—the ravines will be filled.
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ASV
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of thee.
KJV
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
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This verse in Ezekiel 32
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThe land wherein thou swimmest - Egypt; so called, because intersected with canals, and overflowed annually by the Nile.
This 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.
This site's exposition
drench the land with the flow
The picture recalls the first plague of Exodus 7, when the Nile turned to blood. The watercourses that carried Egypt's life now run with Pharaoh's blood. Old judgment returns.
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 Awakening3 voices
It shall reach to the mountains, and the waters of Egypt shall again be turned into blood by this means: The rivers shall be full of thee. The judgments executed upon Pharaoh of old are expressed by the breaking of the heads of leviathan in the waters, Ps. lxxiv. But now they go further; this old serpent not only has now his head bruised, but is all crushed to pieces.
Even to the mountains - Blood shall be poured forth, as if it were to rise to the very mountains. Full of thee - O thy blood, and of thy carcasses cast into them.
And I will also water with thy blood the land wherewith thou swimmest,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The land shall still afford seas to swim in, but they shall be seas of blood. Alluding to the plague (Ex 7:19; HAVERNICK translates, "I will water the land with what flows from thee, even thy blood, reaching to the mountains": "with thy blood overflowing even to the mountains." Perhaps this is better.
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The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִשְׁקֵיתִ֨י | vehishkeiti | and I will make drink | H8248 → | |
| אֶ֧רֶץ | ʾeretz | [the] land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| צָפָתְךָ֛ | tzafatekha | outflow your | H6824 → | |
| מִדָּמְךָ֖ | midamekha | from blood your | H1818 → | 360 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הֶֽהָרִ֑ים | heharim | the mountains | H2022 → | 546 times |
| וַאֲפִקִ֖ים | vaafikim | and ravines | H650 → | 19 times |
| יִמָּלְא֥וּן | yimalun | they will be filled ! | H4390 → | 249 times |
| מִמֶּֽךָּ׃ | mimeka | from you | H4480 → | 1188 times |
וְהִשְׁקֵיתִ֨יand I will make drink
vehishkeitiH8248 →
אֶ֧רֶץ[the] land
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
צָפָתְךָ֛outflow your
tzafatekhaH6824 →
מִדָּמְךָ֖from blood your
midamekhaH1818 →360 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הֶֽהָרִ֑יםthe mountains
heharimH2022 →546 times
וַאֲפִקִ֖יםand ravines
vaafikimH650 →19 times
יִמָּלְא֥וּןthey will be filled !
yimalunH4390 →249 times
מִמֶּֽךָּ׃from you
mimekaH4480 →1188 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
Revelation 16:6For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 49:26
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your…
- Revelation 11:18
The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your…
- Revelation 6:10–11
And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
- Luke 11:49–50
Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’
- Isaiah 49:26
Through
Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
it leads to
- Lamentations 1:15
The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin…
- Hebrews 13:11–12
Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- Lamentations 1:15
Through
Exodus 7:17This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will…
it leads to
- Exodus 4:9
But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from…
- Exodus 4:9
Through
Isaiah 34:3Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
it leads to
- Joel 2:20
The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its…
- Joel 2:20
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works
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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel and Patrick Fairbairn, Ezekiel and the Book of His Prophecy.