Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit." — Ezekiel 32:24 (ASV)
See the marginal reference. Elam corresponds to the country known to the Greeks and Romans as Elymais, near Persia and Media. The Elamites were a fierce and warlike people. In the records of Assurbanipal, his final triumph over Elam seems to have been one of his proudest boasts. Elam, no doubt, in the decline of Assyrian power again asserted its independence and was again crushed by the Chaldean conqueror.