Ezekiel 32:23

Whose graves have been set In the recesses of the pit, And so her gathered host is round about her grave, All of them thrust through. Fallen by the sword, Who caused terror in the land of the living.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

22There, is Assyria with all her gathered host, Round about him, are his graves, All of them thrust through, The fallen by the sword:

24There, is Persia with all her multitude, round about her grave,— All of them, thrust through The fallen by the sword Who have descended, uncircumcised into the earth below Who made themselves a terror in the land of the living, And so they have borne their confusion with them who descend into the pit:

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Cross References

Job 28:13Mortal knoweth not the way thereof, neither can it be found in the land of the living;

Psalms 116:9I will walk to and fro before Yahweh, in the lands of life.

Isaiah 14:15Howbeit, to Hades, shalt thou be brought down,—To the Recesses of the Pit!

Isaiah 14:17Who made the world like a desert? And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not, Each one to his home?

Isaiah 51:12I—I, am he that comforteth you,—Who art, thou, that thou hast feared Frail man that dieth, and A son of the earthborn, who, as grass, shall be delivered up?

Ezekiel 26:17Then shall they take up over thee a dirge, And say to thee,- How hast thou perished, And ceased from the seas,- The city renowned which was strong in the sea She and they who dwelt in her, Who imparted their terror To all who dwelt in her.

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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