Ezekiel 32:1-24 Lamentation Over Egypt
The final section of judgment on foreign nations. First is the fall of Egypt on the Earth, and then the fall into hell. Many other nations are there to meet Egypt, great ones that fell in generations past.
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Part 49 of this series.
This chapter concludes the section of judgment on the foreign nations.
No other book in the O.T. is so clearly dated as the book of Ezekiel. The first oracle is 1 March 585 B.C., two months after the news of the fall of Jerusalem reached the captives. Two weeks later Ezekiel received and gave the second oracle.
God is making known the reason for Pharaoh's humiliation and shame. When people fall, it is never without reason.
The sword usually stands for war. God's sword will be in the hand of the king of Babylon. For so many centuries Egypt had prospered, but it would soon end. We can see similar pride in nations today. To God it is inconsequential. He is able to humble the greatest.
The final lamentation brings us to the nether parts of the Earth, in which the unrighteous dead find themselves. This is the last of the seven prophecies against Egypt, in which they are cast into hell. The rich man in hell wanted a drop of water on his tongue. A spirit does not have a tongue or need water, so he must have had some kind of body.
Elam was situated 320km east of Babylon, west of the Tigress, now part of Iran. In the last days it seems that Israel will destroy Elam. Right now all of Iran's nuclear weapons are in what was once known as Elam.