Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:23
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.
23. sides of the pit ] i.e. the depths or bottom of the pit.
caused terror ] Cf. Eze 26:17; Eze 26:20. This phrase must mean that Asshur inspired terror into the nations by his might; to suppose that the meaning is that the fate of Asshur by the judgment of God caused terror (Hitz.) is altogether false, cf. Eze 32:24-27 ; Eze 32:32.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
At least for decorum here is supposed a spacious vault, or pit, in midst whereof the king of Asshur in a stately tomb lies buried, and round about the vault are places to lay others dead with him, and in his cause, some of his more famous captains and commanders.
Her company; the common subjects and soldiers of the Assyrian empire, all buried undistinguished about her: see Eze 32:22.
Her grave: the ruins of an empire are its grave; and so all the subjects of this empire lie buried with it.
Caused terror; were a terror to all they would be enemies to, and proudly boasted of and inhumanly used their power, now lie quiet, their dust little regarded, less feared, and least of all pitied. In the land of the living; while they were in the land of the living, a periphrasis of life.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
23. in the sides of thepitSepulchres in the East were caves hollowed out of the rock,and the bodies were laid in niches formed at the sides. MAURERneedlessly departs from the ordinary meaning, and translates,”extremities” (compare Isa 14:13;Isa 14:15).
which caused terrorThey,who alive were a terror to others, are now, in the nether world,themselves a terrible object to behold.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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.”
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 32:23 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.
Ver. 23. Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit. ] In the bottom of the burning lake, which from the high top of a kingdom is a foul fall. Their being there buried may import that they shall never come out.
Which caused terror.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
company = gathered host.
in the land of the living. Used here as the opposite of the land of the dead. See note on Eze 26:20. The expression occurs six times in this chapter.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
graves: The niches in the sides of the subterranean burying places. Eze 26:20, Isa 14:15
which: Eze 32:24-27, Eze 32:32, Eze 26:17, Eze 26:20, Isa 14:16, Isa 51:12, Isa 51:13
terror: or, dismaying
the land: Eze 26:20, Job 28:13, Psa 27:13, Psa 116:9, Psa 142:5, Isa 38:11, Jer 11:19
Reciprocal: 2Ki 9:37 – the carcase Isa 14:19 – go Isa 30:33 – for the king Jer 49:37 – to be Eze 32:20 – fall Eze 32:26 – caused Nah 3:18 – O King
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 32:23. The pronoun whose refers to company” in the preceding verse who are said to have gone down with Assbnr. Set in the sides of the pit is all figurative and refers to the desolated condition that had come upon various kings and nations. The phrase means that the “company or citizens were about their king, and all of them near each other in this figurative grave or pit. Caused terrors in the land of the living is explained at verse 10 Of this chapter.