They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
Egypt's funeral is appointed: she must go down to the pit with all the other proud kingdoms that came before her. No nation, however fair or flourishing, escapes this common grave. She drinks the same bloody cup as the rest, and all her multitude falls by the sword. Let her have an honorable burial, but do not mistake it for exemption from judgment.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 32:17-32
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised,.... That is, shall not lie in such state, or be buried with such pomp and magnificence, and have such sepulchral monuments erected to their memory, as other heroes among the Heathens have had; such as the mighty kings of Assyria and Persia before mentioned: which are gone down to hell, or...
they shall not lie with the mighty--that is, they shall not have separate tombs such as mighty conquerors have: but shall all be heaped together in one pit, as is the case with the vanquished [GROTIUS]. HAVERNICK reads it interrogatively, "Shall they not lie with the mighty that are fallen?" But English Version is supported by the parallel (Isa 14:18-19), to which Ezekiel refers, and...