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 Ezekiel 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.
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Ezekiel 32:23
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 terrore in the land of the living.