Ezekiel 32:23

Ezekiel 32:23

21 ^aThe strong among the mighty
Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell
With those who help him:
‘They have ^bgone down,
They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

22 “Assyria^a is there, and all her company,
With their graves all around her,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

23 ^aHer graves are set in the recesses of the Pit,
And her company is all around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who ^bcaused terror in the land of the living.

24 “There is ^aElam and all her multitude,
All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who have ^bgone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,
^cWho caused their terror in the land of the living;
Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

25 They have set her ^abed in the midst of the slain,
With all her multitude,
With her graves all around it,
All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
Though their terror was caused
In the land of the living,
Yet they bear their shame
With those who go down to the Pit;
It was put in the midst of the slain.

26 “There are ^aMeshech and Tubal and all their multitudes,
With all their graves around it,
All of them ^buncircumcised, slain by the sword,
Though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

27 ^aThey do not lie with the mighty
Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,
Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;
They have laid their swords under their heads,
But their iniquities will be on their bones,
Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

28 Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
And lie with those slain by the sword.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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in the sides of the pit—Sepulchres in the East were caves hollowed out of the rock, and the bodies were laid in niches formed at the sides. MAURER needlessly departs from the ordinary meaning, and translates, "extremities" (compare Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:15).

which caused terror—They, who alive were a terror to others, are now, in the nether world, themselves a terrible object to behold.

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