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Ezekiel 32:27

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And they shall not lie with the mighty. The words seem at first to contradict Ezekiel 32:26. The LXX. meets the difficulty by omitting the negative; Ewald and Havernick, by taking it as an interrogative, "Shall they not lie," etc.?

Probably the explanation is laying stress on the word "mighty." Meshech and Tubal have a lower place in Hades; they are buried without the honors of war. Their swords are not placed beneath their heads (for the practice thus referred to, see Died.

Sic; 18.26; Arrian, 1.5; Virg; 'AEn.,' 6.233). For the Scythians, who worshipped the sword (Herod; 1. 62), this would be the extremest ignominy. In this way their iniquities should be upon their bones as they lay dishonored.

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