Ezekiel 32:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him Namely, to the king of Egypt; out of the midst of hell Or, the pit, as Bishop Newcome renders the word: see Ezekiel 32:23. The passage is “a poetical description of the regions of the dead; where the ghosts of deceased tyrants, with their subjects, are represented as coming to meet the king of Egypt and his auxiliaries, upon their arrival at the same place. Hell signifies here the state of the dead.” Lowth. See note on Isaiah 14:9. They are gone down The warriors, famous in their time for their exploits, have undergone the same fate with other men of blood, and are gone down to the grave by violent deaths.

Ezekiel 32:21

21 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.