26<\/strong>. Meshech and Tubal. See on Eze 27:13<\/span>; cf. Eze 38:2<\/span>.<\/p>\n her graves him<\/em> ] On genders cf. Eze 32:22<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n though they caused<\/em> ] for<\/strong> they caused.<\/p>\n Verse 26<\/span>. There<\/B><\/I> is <\/B>Meshech, Tubal<\/B><\/I>] See on Eze 27:13<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Meshech:<\/B> see Eze 27:13<\/span>. <\/P> Tubal:<\/B> see Eze 27:13<\/span>; to which interpretation I still adhere, adding that in the full extent of these Moschi and Tibareni, these Cappadocians and Albanians, the Scythians may be included, many of which were next neighbours to them. Junius is of opinion that the Scythians are here meant, and so am I. But it will be said they never had such a settled kingdom worth noting. It is true of that barbarous people, there is no account that ever they were lords of the world; yet they caused their terror in the land of the living<\/I>, and were slain by the sword under the command and in the expeditions of their kings into Asia, who were accompanied with her multitudes. Velleius reports they wasted Asia 350 years before Rome was thought of, and that is about 1082 years before Christs birth. Again, we find them in arms, (no doubt in numbers much like what they appeared in when Tomvris their queen destroyed Cyrus, or when they have moved against their neighbours in later days,) and with those arms wasted the Cimmerii, a people seated near them on the Euxine Sea and the Maeotis Palus; and about that time they did under their chieftains waste Asia, they forced Cyaxares from the siege of Nineveh, such considerable strength they had then; this was 634 before Christs birth, were lords of Asia for twenty-eight years, and it seems that their power was such, Cyaxares was glad to decline plain dealing, and to overthrow them by a wile, as Calvisius tells us, ad A.M. 3344, and the help of Halyattes, king of the Lydians. These things were fresh in memory when Ezekiel prophesied thus against Egypt, for they fell out about the eighth or ninth year of Pharaoh-necho, some fourteen years before Pharaoh-hophra came to the crown; now about the sixth year of his reign came this word of the Lord to Ezekiel; so that the prophet might well mention these as instances of Gods power abating the pride and destroying the kingdoms of the mighty, and these are with reason brought in among the Persians and Assyrians. <\/P> <\/p>\n 26. Meshech, Tubal<\/B>northernnations: the Moschi and Tibareni, between the Black and Caspian Seas.HERODOTUS [3.94], mentionsthem as a subjugated people, tributaries to Darius Hystaspes (see Eze27:13<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude<\/strong>,…. The Scythians, a powerful and warlike people; and all their armies, as the Targum; with their leaders, generals, and commanders, as lying in their graves next to the Assyrians and Elamites, or<\/p>\n her graves are round about him<\/strong>; not the king of Egypt, nor the king of Assyria, nor the king of Persia; but the chief commander of the Scythians, called the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, Eze 38:2<\/span>:<\/p>\n all of them slain by the sword<\/strong>; of Halyattes, king of Lydia, and Cyaxares, king of Media, who was assisted by the former in subduing the Scythians:<\/p>\n though they caused their terror in the land of the living<\/strong>; as they did in Media, and other countries, and especially in some parts of Asia.<\/p>\n (26) There is Meshech, Tubal.<\/strong>See Note on Eze. 27:13<\/span>. It is difficult to obtain historical data for the exact time of the fall of these more obscure kingdoms; but at this period of the world these smaller states were being rapidly swallowed up and absorbed by the greater Powers who were contending for the worlds empire. Meshech and Tubal, like Persia, do not appear at this time to have yet attained their greatest development.<\/p>\n “There is Meshech, Tubal and all her multitude, her graves are round about her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For they caused their terror in the land of the living. And they will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. ‘But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword’.”<\/p>\n Meshech and Tubal were Anatolian nations who had harried the Assyrians on their northern frontier. They were fierce fighters who deliberately engaged in slave-trading (Eze 27:13<\/span>) and had also spread terror, sufficiently to be worthy of mention here.<\/p>\n It would seem that they were not to lie with the mighty because they had themselves been the terror of the mighty. Their iniquities were on their bones, that is, they were separated because they had been at enmity with all, including the mighty Assyrian empire, and were seen as particularly evil. They were fiercely independent nations. This assumes that ‘the mighty’ were Assyria and their allies, which is quite probable. The Assyrians were mentioned first here, and were overlords of the other nations. The mighty are described in terms of burial practises. They have their weapons with them and their swords were laid under their heads.<\/p>\n The mention of Meshech and Tubal here confirms that we are to see these nations as within the same general area as the others, and not distant peoples in far off lands.<\/p>\n ‘But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.’ The change of person suggests that this was spoken to Egypt. Egypt had allied itself with Assyria to face up to the Babylonians. They thus joined them in the grave.<\/p>\n Eze 32:26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.<\/p>\n Ver. 26. There is Meshech and Tubal,<\/strong> ] i.e., <\/em> Say some, the Cappadocians and Spaniards; others, the Scythians and Sarmatians. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And all her multitude.<\/strong> ] See Eze 32:25<\/span> .<\/p>\n NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 32:26-28<\/p>\n 26Meshech, Tubal and all their hordes are there; their graves surround them. All of them were slain by the sword uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living. 27Nor do they lie beside the fallen heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these heroes was once in the land of the living. 28But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword.<\/p>\n Eze 32:27<\/p>\n NASB, NKJVuncircumcised ()<\/p>\n LXX, NRSV,<\/p>\n TEV, NJBlong ago ()<\/p>\n The phrases are spelled similarly in Hebrew. The second fits the context best because these people were part of the uncircumcised and the term is repeated in Eze 32:28.<\/p>\n NASB, NKJV,<\/p>\n LXXtheir iniquity rested on their bones<\/p>\n NRSV, TEVwhose shields are upon their bones<\/p>\n NJBtheir shields put under their bones<\/p>\n REBtheir shields over their bones<\/p>\n These men of Meshech, Tubal are honored even in death, but not so for the Egyptians!<\/p>\n Eze 32:26-28<\/p>\n Eze 32:26-28<\/p>\n “There is Mesheeh, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living. And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. But thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain by the sword.”<\/p>\n Meshech: Supposed to be the Moschi, a people between Iberia and Armenia, from whom, probably the Muscovites are descended. Eze 27:13, Eze 38:2, Eze 38:3, Eze 39:1, Gen 10:2, Gen 10:12, 1Ch 1:5 <\/p>\n Tubal: Probably the Tibarenians, a people of Pontus, west of the Moschians. <\/p>\n all of: Eze 32:19, Eze 32:20, Eze 32:24 <\/p>\n caused: Eze 32:23, Eze 32:27, Eze 32:32 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 4:27 – General Eze 26:20 – in the land Eze 32:22 – General<\/p>\n Eze 32:26. Meshech and Tubal were some more of the heathen peoples who incurred the wrath of G-od. They had been doomed to the same ruin as other nations suffered.<\/p>\n Eze 32:26-28. There is Meshech, Tubal, &c. These are some other of the Assyrian allies; some think the Cappadocians, and other nations neighbouring to them, are here meant. The Scythians also, who anciently governed Asia, may be comprehended, and their expulsion from Media by Cyaxares may here be referred to: see Obs. on Books, 1:192. And they shall not lie with the mighty, &c. They shall not lie among those heathen heroes, men of courage and fortitude, who were laid in distinct graves, with pomp and magnificence, but shall all be tumbled together into one common pit, as their actions have not made them worthy of any distinction. Which are gone down to hell Or, the state of the dead, as the word which we translate hell ought often to be rendered. With their weapons of war Brave men, who had gained signal victories, used, by way of honour, to have their arms buried with them, or hung upon their sepulchres. Thus was the grave of Misenus honoured by neas.<\/p>\n Ingenti mole sepulchrum Imponit, suaque arma viro. N. 6:232.<\/p>\n It was usual, says Kirchman, De Funer. Roman., 50. 3. c. 18, in former times, in some places, to put swords, shields, and other armour in the graves of military men, as they did in the grave of Theseus, and on the bier of Alexander the Great. But the meaning of the prophet here is, that those, of whom he speaks, should be without these usual martial solemnities, with which people formerly often honoured their dead. Instead of which he says their iniquities shall be upon their bones Their death shall carry in it plain tokens of their sins, and of Gods vengeance pursuing them on account of them. Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised Thou, O king of Egypt, shalt have no honorary distinctions paid thee at thy death, or be laid in a magnificent tomb, as those great conquerors have been, but shalt lie in a common pit, or grave, promiscuously with those who are overcome and slain in battle.<\/p>\n 32:26 There [is] {q} Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves [are] around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.<\/p>\n (q) That is, the Capadocians and Italians or Spaniards, as Josephus writes.<\/p>\n The nations of Meshech and Tubal in eastern Anatolia (modern western Turkey, cf. Eze 27:13) along with their neighbors, other uncircumcised peoples, had also perished in war and were now dead powers. They had produced terrifying warriors, like the Nephilim, the ancient legendary warriors of Gen 6:4, but they were not able to escape their fate, and Egypt would join them. It was customary in some countries to bury honored warriors with their swords and other weapons of war (Eze 32:27; cf. 1Ma 13:29).<\/p>\n There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 26. Meshech and Tubal. See on Eze 27:13; cf. Eze 38:2. her graves him ] On genders cf. 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