Ezekiel 32:20

20 In the midst of [the] people slain by [the] sword it is given they will fall [to] a sword; they carried her off and all of her hordes.

Ezekiel 32:20 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 32:20

They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the
sword
The Egyptians shall fall in battle by the sword of the Chaldeans: she is delivered to the sword;
Egypt is given to the sword, to perish by it, for her sins, according to the just appointment of God: draw her and all her multitudes;
to the place of burial; not in pomp and splendour, as great persons are drawn in hearses; but in great disgrace, as carcasses are dragged unto a common pit or grave, and cast into it: this is said to the Chaldeans, who had a commission from the Lord to slay Egypt, and to bury her, and all her people.

Ezekiel 32:20 In-Context

18 "Son of man, mourn over the hordes of Egypt, and make her go down, [and] with her [the] daughters of mighty nations, {down to the deep underworld} with [the people] going down to [the] grave.

19 {You are more lovely than whom}? Go down and be laid in rest with [the] uncircumcised.

20 In the midst of [the] people slain by [the] sword it is given they will fall [to] a sword; they carried her off and all of her hordes.

21 [The] chiefs of [the] warriors will speak to him from the middle of Sheol; with his helpers they have gone down; the uncircumcised lie [still], {those slain by the sword}.

22 Assyria [is] there and all of its assembly; all around it [are] its graves, all of them killed, those fallen by the sword,

Footnotes

• [a] Or "she"; that is, Egypt
• [b] Or "it"
• [c] Or "its"