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Ezekiel 32:27

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to sheol 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.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Not. Some copies of Septuagint omit the negation. Others render the Hebrew, "Have they not slept? "These nations were deprived of military honours, dying like cowards; and therefore their swords were not placed with them in the grave. (Calmet) It was customary to inter such things as the deceased had liked the most. (Serv. in Virgil's Æneid x. Arma quibus lætatus habe tua Simon (1 Machabees xiii. 29.) placed arms and representations of ships on the pillars at Modin, in honour of his kindred. If Elam, had not received such distinction, why should the Egyptian repine? Were they any better? (Calmet) The country and king of the Elamites, Assyrians, and other infidels, shall be destroyed. (Worthington)

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