Ezekiel 32:19

Ezekiel 32:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
• New International Version (NIV)Say to them, ‘Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’

Context of Ezekiel 32:19

17On the fifteenth day of the month in the twelfth year, the word of Adonai came to me saying: 18“Son of man, wail over Egypt’s throng. Bring them down —her and the daughters of lofty nations, to the underworld, to those who go down to the pit. Who do you surpass in beauty? Go down, lie with the uncircumcised. 20They fall among those slain by the sword. She is given over to the sword. They drag her down with all her throng. 21The strongest warriors will speak of him and his allies from the midst of Sheol. They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:19 word by word

מִמִּ֖י נָעָ֑מְתָּ רְדָ֥ה וְהָשְׁכְּבָ֖ה אֶת־עֲרֵלִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whom dost thou pass in beautyנָעֵםnâ‛êm · be pleasantH5276
• go downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• and be thou laidשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: be deadH7901
• with the uncircumcisedעָרֵל‛ârêl · uncircumcisedH6189

Cross-references for Ezekiel 32:19

• Ezekiel 27:3Say to Tyre, dwelling at the entrance of the sea, the merchant to the people of many coastlands, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Tyre, you said: “I am perfect in beauty!’
• Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, lift up a lament for the king of Tyre. Say to him, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
• Ezekiel 31:2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who is like you in your greatness?
• Isaiah 14:9Sheol from below is excited about you, to meet you at your coming! He stirs up the dead spirits for you, even the chief ones of the earth. He makes all the kings of the nations rise up from their thrones.
• Ezekiel 32:21The strongest warriors will speak of him and his allies from the midst of Sheol. They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
• Ezekiel 28:10You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised at the hand of strangers. For I have spoken.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
• 1 Samuel 17:26Then David asked the men who were standing by him saying, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the ranks of the living God?”
• Jeremiah 9:25Egypt, Judah, Edom and Ammon’s children and Moab, and all that have cut the corners of their hair—that dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 32:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Whom dost thou pass in beauty? - How little does it signify, whether a mummy be well embalmed, wrapped round with rich stuff, and beautifully painted on the outside, or not. Go down into the tombs, examine the niches, and see whether one dead carcass be preferable to another.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19whom dost thou pass in beauty? - Thou art not more beautiful than other nations: thou shalt not escape their fate.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-32Verses 17-32 Divers nations are mentioned as gone down to the grave before Egypt, who are ready to give her a scornful reception; these nations had been lately ruined and wasted. But though Judah and Jerusalem were about this time ruined and laid waste, yet they are not mentioned here. Though they suffered the same affliction, and by the same hand, yet the kind design for which they were afflicted, and the mercy God reserved for them, altered its nature…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-20In an earlier message (Ezekiel 31:17–18), God said that Egypt would go down to join other nations in the place of the dead. Here that idea is explained more fully. Egypt would share the fate of those who were rejected and those killed by the sword. They would go to the Pit, a word that describes the place of the dead. This place of judgment was already filled with many nations. These nations were once powerful, but they had fallen and been destroyed…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. Whom dost thou pass in beauty?--Beautiful as thou art, thou art not more so than other nations, which nevertheless have perished. go down, &c.--to the nether world, where all "beauty" is speedily marred.Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Egypt
• Vex
• Isaiah

Commentaries on Ezekiel 32

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings