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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 32:27 - 32:27
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they shall not lie with the mighty - that is, they shall not have separate tombs such as mighty conquerors have: but shall all be heaped together in one pit, as is the case with the vanquished [Grotius]. Havernick reads it interrogatively, “Shall they not lie with the mighty that are fallen?” But English Version is supported by the parallel (Isa 14:18, Isa 14:19), to which Ezekiel refers, and which represents them as not lying as mighty kings lie in a grave, but cast out of one, as a carcass trodden under foot.
with ... weapons of war - alluding to the custom of burying warriors with their arms (1 Maccabees 13:29). Though honored by the laying of “their swords under their heads,” yet the punishment of “their iniquities shall be upon their bones.” Their swords shall thus attest their shame, not their glory (Mat 26:52), being the instruments of their violence, the penalty of which they are paying.