They also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
Ver. 17. They also went down into hell with him.] It was wont to be said that hell was paved with kings' crests and shavelings' bald pates. Henry VIII was told on his deathbed that he was now going to the place of kings. See Isaiah 30:33. What a coil kept this Esarhaddon in his time, as being superstitibus terror, praemortuis laeitia, complicibus exitium, sui ipsius ruina! a
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