Ezekiel 32

Message: A Lament (or warning) over Pharaoh and Egypt or what will come of Egypt such as when Egypt falls into a pit.

Time: 12th year, 12th month or March 3, 585 BC; March 18, 585 BC (beginning verse 17)

What the Lord is Saying: Once again, the Lord shows these people that it doesn't matter what they think of themselves, it is what the Lord declares they are that matters. The language is very descriptive. It is describing the gloom and doom that awaits these people and what they will then be known by. And their demise will not simply be only theirs to see, but their effect will be on how everyone sees them. People will fall by the sword. This is their funeral.

Egypt will fall down to be among the other nation's of outcasts. Once felt mighty, they will be sunk. Elam is mentioned in verse 32. Elam is believed to be Persia or a contemporary land of Egypt. Elam is there beside Egypt in the grave, as an outcast, slain by the sword, uncircumcised and bearing shame. Meshech and Tubal are also there. These are northern people/lands. And Edom also and the princes of the north, and the Sidonians. This is where Pharaoh is laid to rest, among thus low down.

Promise: "Then they will know that I am the Lord." This expression occurs 70 times in the book of Ezekiel. This is a reminder to people that their chief aim or their chief purpose is to know God which is in contrast to what there lives often testify.