Ezequiel 32:27

27 Y no yacerán con los fuertes que cayeron de los incircuncisos, los cuales descendieron al Seol con sus armas de guerra, y pusieron sus espadas debajo de sus cabezas; mas sus iniquidades estarán sobre sus huesos, porque fueron terror de fuertes en la tierra de los vivientes

Ezequiel 32:27 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 32:27

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 "the grave", with their weapons of war;
which were never taken from them, and which they held in their hands to the last, being never conquered, and died at last a natural death, and not by the sword; or which were carried in state before their hearse at the time of interment, as is the custom to this day so to do at the funeral of great warriors, generals, and officers: and they have laid their swords under their heads;
as a sign and token, as Jarchi says, that the sword did not rule over them, that they did not fall by it; either their statues and sepulchral monuments were adorned with these, and other instruments of war, as was the grave of Misenus by Aeneas ^F4; and as is still the custom where the heads of such mighty ones are laid, to engrave them on them: or, literally, their swords and other weapons of war were put in their graves under their heads; as it was usual, in former times, in some places to put swords, shields, and other armour, in the graves of military men, as were in the grave of Theseus, on the bier of Alexander the great, and others, as reported by Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus, and Sophocles ^F5: now the Scythians were not buried: after this grand and pompous manner: but their iniquities shall be upon their bones;
or the punishment of their sin should be, that their bones should lie unburied and scattered about, or be dug up and broke to pieces, and treated with inhumanity and contempt, as a just reward for their savageness, and cruelty: though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living:
not only the terror of the common people, but even of the most powerful kings and mighty warriors.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Vid. Virgil. Aeneid. l. 6. & Seneca, l. 4. controvers. 4.
F5 Vid. Lydium de Re Militari, l. 6. c. 7. p. 250, 251. & Kirchman, de Funer. Roman. l. 3. c. 18.

Ezequiel 32:27 In-Context

25 En medio de los muertos le pusieron cama con toda su multitud; a sus alrededores están sus sepulcros; todos ellos incircuncisos, muertos a espada, porque fue puesto su espanto en la tierra de los vivientes, mas llevaron su confusión con los que descienden al sepulcro; él fue puesto en medio de los muertos

26 Allí Mesec, y Tubal, y toda su multitud, sus sepulcros en sus alrededores; todos ellos incircuncisos muertos a espada, porque habían dado su terror en la tierra de los vivientes

27 Y no yacerán con los fuertes que cayeron de los incircuncisos, los cuales descendieron al Seol con sus armas de guerra, y pusieron sus espadas debajo de sus cabezas; mas sus iniquidades estarán sobre sus huesos, porque fueron terror de fuertes en la tierra de los vivientes

28 Tú, pues, serás quebrantado entre los incircuncisos, y yacerás con los muertos a espada

29 Allí Idumea, sus reyes y todos sus príncipes, los cuales con su fortaleza fueron puestos con los muertos a espada; ellos yacerán con los incircuncisos, y con los que descienden al sepulcro