27And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. …
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-32)This prophecy concludes and completes the burden of Egypt, and leaves it and all its multitude in the pit of destruction. I. We are here invited to attend the funeral of that once flourishing kingdom, to lament its fall, and to take a view of those who attend it to the grave and accompany it in the grave. 1. This dead corpse of a kingdom is here brought to the grave. The prophet is ordered to cast…
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