Ezekiel 32:22-32 - You too, Pharaoh, will be broken

32:22-27

The once great, but now fallen, Assyria is down in the grave. Her supposed greatness was no protection for her. She was there along with all the people she had slain, and Assyria was a very violent nation. Various peoples are then named as being down in the grave. Elam was a warlike nation to the east of Babylon. She had slain many, and would herself now be slain.

32:28-32

So in v32 we come to the crux of the matter. Pharaoh himself would find himself in the grave with the uncircumcised. He “and all his hordes” will go down to the grave along with those that they despised, the uncircumcised.

Many nations have been mentioned in these chapters, with Tyre and Egypt receiving the greatest attention. There is one nation that has not been mentioned, and that is Babylon. Isaiah and Jeremiah do talk about the fall of Babylon, but Ezekiel does not do that here. Some think that this is because of pragmatic reasons, that it would not be wise to condemn Babylon when Ezekiel was living in Babylon!