The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 32:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

For yet fourteen days the mind of the prophet brooded over the fall of Egypt, and his thoughts at last found utterance in another lamentation, based upon that of Isaiah 14:1-32. Taken together, the two passages give a vivid picture of the thoughts of the Hebrews as to the unseen world, and we find in them the germs of the later belief of Judaism in Paradise and Gehenna.

What I have called the Dante element in Ezekiel it seen here raised to its highest power.

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