Ezekiel 31:17

Young's Literal Translation

Also they with him have gone down to sheol, Unto the pierced of the sword, And -- his arm -- they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.

Hebrew Names Version
They also went down into She'ol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

King James Version
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

English Standard Version
They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.

New American Standard Bible
"They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived in its shade among the nations.

New Century Version
These trees had also gone down with the great tree to the place of the dead. They joined those who were killed in war and those among the nations who had lived under the great tree's shade.

Amplified Bible
"They also went down to Sheol with it to those who were slain by the sword; those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.

World English Bible
They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They also went downe to hell with him vnto them that be slaine with the sworde, and his arme, and they that dwelt vnder his shadowe in the middes of the heathen.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.

Legacy Standard Bible
They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.

Berean Standard Bible
They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.

Contemporary English Version
Those people who found protection in its shade will also be sent to the world below, where they will join the dead.

Complete Jewish Bible
They descended with him to Sh'ol to those who were killed by the sword, to those who were his fighting arm, those among the nations who lived in his shade.

Darby Translation
They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that were slain with the sword, and [that were] his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, those trees also went down with the big tree to the place of death. They joined the people who were killed in battle. That big tree made the other trees strong. Those trees had lived under the big tree's shadow among the nations.

George Lamsa Translation
They also went down to Sheol with it to those who are slain by the sword; and its posterity dwelt under its shadow among the nations.

Good News Translation
They will go with it to the world of the dead to join those that have already fallen. And all who live under its shadow will be scattered among the nations.

Lexham English Bible
They also went down with it to Sheol to those who died by the sword, and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations.

Literal Translation
They also went down with him into Sheol, to the slain of the sword, even his arm, who dwelt in his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for they shal go downe to hell wt him, vnto the that be slayne with the swearde, which dwelt afore vnder the shadow off his arme amoge the Heithe.

American Standard Version
They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Bible in Basic English
And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They also went down into the nether-world with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were in his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

King James Version (1611)
They also went downe into hell with him vnto them that be slaine with the sword, and they that were his arme, that dwelt vnder his shadow in the middest of the heathen.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They also went downe to hell with him vnto them that be slayne with the sword, which were his arme [and] dwelt vnder his shadowe in the middest of the nations.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.

English Revised Version
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi also thei schulen go doun with hym to helle, to slayn men with swerd; and the arm of ech man schal sitte vndur the schadewyng place of hym, in the myddis of naciouns.

Update Bible Version
They also went down into Sheol with him to those that are slain by the sword; yes, those that were his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
They also went down into the grave with him to [them that are] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shade in the midst of the heathen.

New English Translation
Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

New King James Version
They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who were its strong arm dwelt in its shadows among the nations.

New Living Translation
Its allies, too, were all destroyed and had passed away. They had gone down to the grave—all those nations that had lived in its shade.

New Life Bible
And those who lived under its shadow among the nations will go down to the place of the dead with it, to those who were killed by the sword.

New Revised Standard
They also went down to Sheol with it, to those killed by the sword, along with its allies, those who lived in its shade among the nations.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even they, with him descended into hades. Among them who were thrust through with the sword,- Even his seed who dwelt in his shade in the midst of the nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Revised Standard Version
They also shall go down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yea, those who dwelt under its shadow among the nations shall perish.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness, ¹¹ I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out. ¹² And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him. ¹³ On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field, ¹⁴ In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up unto them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the sons of men, Unto those going down to the pit. ¹⁵ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him. ¹⁶ From the sound of his fall I have caused nations to shake, In My causing him to go down to sheol, With those going down to the pit, And comforted in the earth -- the lower part, are all trees of Eden, The choice and the good of Lebanon, All drinking waters. ¹⁷ Also they with him have gone down to sheol, Unto the pierced of the sword, And -- his arm -- they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations. ¹⁸ Unto whom hast thou been thus like, In honour and in greatness among the trees of Eden, And thou hast been brought down with the trees of Eden, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the uncircumcised thou liest, With the pierced of the sword? It [is] Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went: Ezekiel 32:20-30, Psalms 9:17, Isaiah 14:9

that were: Ezekiel 30:6-8, Ezekiel 30:21-25, Nehemiah 3:17, Nehemiah 3:18

dwelt: Ezekiel 31:3, Ezekiel 31:6, Ezekiel 32:31, Lamentations 4:20, Daniel 4:11, Daniel 4:12, Mark 4:32

Reciprocal: Zechariah 11:2 - Howl Matthew 11:23 - which art

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
And the servant taketh ten camels of the camels of his lord and goeth, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he riseth, and goeth unto Aram-Naharaim, unto the city of Nahor;

Genesis 24:61
And Rebekah and her young women arise, and ride on the camels, and go after the man; and the servant taketh Rebekah and goeth.

1 Samuel 30:17
And David smiteth them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow, and there hath not escaped of them a man, except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels, and are fled.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They also went down to hell with him,.... To the grave with him; many of his nobles, princes, generals, soldiers, and subjects:

unto them that be slain with the sword; to be buried and lie with them who had fallen by the sword, as a just punishment for their iniquities:

and they that were his arm; either that leaned on his arm, were dependents upon him; or his ministers, his instruments, whom he employed under him as his deputies, to govern the several provinces that belonged to him; or rather his allies and auxiliaries, who helped and assisted him on occasion:

that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the Heathen; in the midst of the nations subject to the Assyrian empire; such who put themselves under the protection of it, lived comfortably under it, and continued with it to the last; these shared the same fate as that did. The Targum is,

"his governors are broken, whom he strengthened in the midst of the kingdom.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Effect of Assyria’s fall.

Ezekiel 31:15

I covered the deep - To cover with sack-cloth was an expression of mourning Ezekiel 27:31. The deep, the source of Assyria’s prosperity Ezekiel 31:4, was made to mourn, being dried up instead of giving forth its waters, its glad abundance.

For him - Upon his account.

Floods ... great waters - Or, rivers ... the multitude of waters (as in Ezekiel 31:4-5).

Lebanon represents the country which Assyria governed; “the trees,” the tributary princes.

Ezekiel 31:16

See the marginal references.

Ezekiel 31:17

His arm ... - The subject princes who were his strength and support in war.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 31:17. They also went down into hell with him — Into remediless destruction.