Ezekiel 32:23

Their graves have been placed in the lowest parts of the pit. And his multitude was stationed on all sides of his grave: all of the slain, and those who fell by the sword, who formerly spread terror in the land of the living.

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In The King James Version

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

In Context

22Assur is in that place, with all his multitude. Their graves are all around him: all of the slain and those who fell by the sword.

24Elam is in that place, with all his multitude, on all sides of his grave, all those who were slain or who fell by the sword, who descended uncircumcised to the lowest part of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living. And they have borne their disgrace, with those who descend into the pit.

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Cross References

Job 28:13Man does not know its price, nor is it found in the land of those who live in sweetness.

Isaiah 14:15Yet truly, you shall be dragged down to Hell, into the depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14:17who made the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who would not even open a prison for his prisoners?’”

Isaiah 51:12It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?

Ezekiel 26:17And taking up a lamentation over you, they will say to you: ‘How could you have perished, you who live in the sea, the famous city that was strong in the sea, with your inhabitants, of whom the whole world was in dread?’

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 32:18-32

The Fall of Egypt; Egypt's Destruction Completed. ( b. c. 587.) 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are… Read the whole commentary →

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