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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
UHezekile 32:23
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
graves: The niches in the sides of the subterranean burying places. Ezekiel 26:20, Isaiah 14:15
which: Ezekiel 32:24-27, Ezekiel 32:32, Ezekiel 26:17, Ezekiel 26:20, Isaiah 14:16, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13
terror: or, dismaying
the land: Ezekiel 26:20, Job 28:13, Psalms 27:13, Psalms 116:9, Psalms 142:5, Isaiah 38:11, Jeremiah 11:19
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:37 - the carcase Isaiah 14:19 - go Isaiah 30:33 - for the king Jeremiah 49:37 - to be Ezekiel 32:20 - fall Ezekiel 32:26 - caused Nahum 3:18 - O King
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit,.... Or vault, where lay the king of Assyria, and those who fell by the sword with him, who are represented as lying in graves all around him; the nearest to him those who were in the highest posts, and most valiant and courageous, and next the common soldiers, as follows:
and her company is round about her grave not Pharaoh's company round about the grave of the Assyrian monarch; but the company of the king of Assyria, or his army, as the Targum, round about grave; or lying about in the ruins of his kingdom:
all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living; even they who now are in the state of the dead, and can no more disturb and distress any, while they were alive, or in the world, struck terror in all neighbouring states and kingdoms; threatening destruction to them, and obliging them to submit to their tyranny and exactions. Jarchi interprets this of the land of Israel; and the Jewish writers commonly understand by the land of the living the land of Canaan wherever they meet with it; because here men worshipped the living God, and lived before him; and the inhabitants of this land were often terrified by the king of Assyria. So the Targum,
"because they ruled in the land of Israel.''
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 32:23. Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit — Alluding to the niches in the sides of the subterranean caves or burying-places, where the bodies are laid. These are numerous in Egypt.
