John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 32:22

John Gill Commentary

Ezekiel 32:22

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Ezekiel 32:22

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;" — Ezekiel 32:22 (ASV)

Ashur is there, and all her company In the state of the dead, or in a most desolate and ruinous condition; the great Assyrian monarchy, the kings of it, the princes, nobles, generals, soldiers, and the vast number of subjects in all the dominions of it; all his army, as the Targum; this, with what follows, shows who the mighty are, that should meet and address the king of Egypt at his funeral:

his graves are about him ; either the graves of Pharaoh and his multitude are round about the graves of the Assyrian monarch and his subjects, as Kimchi; or rather the graves of his subjects and soldiers are round about him: it seems to represent the king of Assyria as having a more stately monument, and the graves of his people as lesser ones round about him, but all in the same condition:

all of them slain, fallen by the sword of their enemies, the Medes and the Babylonians, by whom the Assyrian monarchy was destroyed.