So shall the king of Assyria lead away the
Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives
As beasts are led or driven, being taken prisoners, and carried
captive by the king of Assyria, namely Sargon, whoever is
intended by him:
young and old;
without any regard to age, sparing none for their tender years or
gray hairs:
naked and barefoot;
as prisoners of war commonly are, being stripped by their
conquerors of their clothes, and having only a few rags given
them to cover their nakedness with, and obliged to travel without
shoes on their feet:
even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of
Egypt;
having no clothes on them to cover those parts; or the skirts of
their garments cut off, as David's servants were by the
Ammonites, ( 2 Samuel
10:4 ) and this to humble and mortify the pride of the
Egyptians.
