They shall not lie with the mighty; the leaders of these Scythians were not buried with a pomp like that of Asshur or Elam, but, surprised by the fraud of Halyattes and Cyaxares, were cut off with all their multitude, and tumbled into pits with the rabble. With their weapons; a ceremony observed in pompous funerals of great captains, to have their weapons and their armour carried before the hearse. Laid their swords under their heads; either when carried out to be buried, or laid under their head in their graves; or perhaps under the statues of them placed on the tops of their tombs: these barbarous Scythians were not so buried. Their iniquity, the exemplary punishment of their iniquity, shall be upon their bones; shall be seen upon their bones unburied, and cast out on the earth by the just judgment of God. Though they were the terror; because they were Cruel, bloody, ravenous, and mischievously tyrannical while they lived. The mighty; Cyaxares and the Persians, that durst not again attempt Nineveh, till the Scythians were fallen.
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Ezekiel 32:27
27 And 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.