“There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
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“There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
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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.
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There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because they caused their terror in the land of the living.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 32:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 27:13 “ ‘ “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.
- Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- Ezekiel 38:2-3 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
- Ezekiel 39:1 “You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
- Genesis 10:12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
- 1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- Ezekiel 32:19-20 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.
- Ezekiel 32:23-24 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. “There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:27 They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have 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.
- Ezekiel 32:32 “For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, the Cappadocians and Italians, or Spaniards, as…
That is, the Cappadocians and Italians, or Spaniards, as Josephus writeth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 32:26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her…
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.
Ver. 26. There is Meshech and Tubal,] i.e., Say some, the Cappadocians and Spaniards; others, the Scythians and Sarmatians.
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And all her multitude.] See Eze 32:25.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Meshech: see Eze 27:13.
Meshech: see Eze 27:13.
Tubal: see Eze 27:13; 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, 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 Christ’s 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 Christ’s’ 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 God’s power abating the pride and destroying the kingdoms of the mighty, and these are with reason brought in among the Persians and Assyrians.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude,.... The…
There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude,.... 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
her graves are round about him; 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,
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all of them slain by the sword; of Halyattes, king of Lydia, and Cyaxares, king of Media, who was assisted by the former in subduing the Scythians:
though they caused their terror in the land of the living; as they did in Media, and other countries, and especially in some parts of Asia.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Her multitude - With the Cappadocians and Albanians, the…
Her multitude - With the Cappadocians and Albanians, the Scythians may be included, many of whom were next neighbours to them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. There is Meshech, Tubal] See on Eze…
Verse 26. There is Meshech, Tubal] See on Eze 27:13.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 32:26-28. There is Meshech, Tubal, &c. — These…
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 Æneas.
“ — — — Ingenti mole sepulchrum Imponit, suaque arma viro.” ÆN. 6:232.
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“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 God’s 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.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Meshech, Tubal--northern nations: the Moschi and Tibareni, between the…
Meshech, Tubal--northern nations: the Moschi and Tibareni, between the Black and Caspian Seas. HERODOTUS [3.94], mentions them as a subjugated people, tributaries to Darius Hystaspes (see Eze 27:13).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. Meshech and Tubal. See on Eze_27:13; cf. Eze_38:2.
26. Meshech and Tubal. See on Eze_27:13; cf. Eze_38:2.
her graves … him] On genders cf. Eze_32:22.
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though they caused] for they caused.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) There is Meshech, Tubal.—See Note on Eze_27:13. It…
(26) There is Meshech, Tubal.—See Note on Eze_27:13. 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 world’s empire. Meshech and Tubal, like Persia, do not appear at this time to have yet attained their greatest development.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain There is Meshech, Tubal. (On the ethnological relations of…
There is Meshech, Tubal. (On the ethnological relations of the two tribes, see note on Eze_27:13, and later on in Eze 38, and Eze 39) Ezekiel obviously speaks of them as one of the powers that bad been conspicuous in his own time, and had been, in part at least, overthrown by the Chaldean monarchy. We may probably connect his words with the great irruption of the Scythians mentioned by Herodotus (1. 103; 4:11) as having swept over Asia even to Palestine and Egypt, inthe time of Josiah, and which, after compelling Cyaxares to raise the siege of Nineveh, left traces of itself in the name of the city of Scythe-polls. Many commentators find a reference to that invasion in the "evil from the north" of Jer_1:14 Jer_4:6; and in Zep_1:13-16. They also, once the terror of the nations, are now represented by the prophet as in the shadow-world of Sheol.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Yahweh continues speaking to Ezekiel about nations in Sheol.
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Meshech ... Tubal
See how you translated these names in Ezekiel 27:13.
Their graves surround them
See how you translated "her graves surround her" in Ezekiel 32:22.
killed by the sword
Here "the sword" represents warfare. AT: "killed in battle" (See: Metonymy)
they had brought their terrors on the land of the living
Causing people to fear is spoken of as if it were the act of bringing an object to them. The abstract noun "terrors" can be translated with a verb. AT: "they terrified everyone in the land of the living" (See: Abstract Nouns)
All of them ... land of the living
See how you translated "All of them ... land of the living" in Ezekiel 32:25.
their iniquities over their bones
The warriors' iniquities cover their bodies, although one would expect that their shields would cover them in death. (See: Metaphor)
they were the terror of warriors in the land of the living
"while they were still alive, they made other warriors very afraid"
in the land of the living
The time during which these warriors were living is spoken of as if it were a place. AT: "while they were alive" (See: Metaphor)
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Tubal
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