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f Artleaſt for Decorum here isſuppoſed a ſpacious Vault,or Pir ; in midſt whereof the King of 4ſþur in a ſtately Tomb lie buried, and roundabout the Vault Places to lay others dead with him, and in his Cauſe, ſome of his more famous Captains and Commanders. s The common Subjetts, and Souldiers ofthe 4ſjrian Empire, all buried un. diſtinguiſh'd about her; ſee wer. 22. let.d. h4 The Ruins of an Em- pire are its Grave, and fo all the Subje&s of this Empire lie buried with it. : Were a Terror to all they would be Enemies to ard proudly boaſted of, and inhumanely uſed their Power, now lie quict their Duſt lictle regarded, leſs feared,and leaſt of all pitied. & While they were in the Land of the Living, a Periphrafi; of Life.
24 There &s Elam / and all her multitude m2 coung about her grave, all of them ſlain », fallen by the ſword, which are gone down © uncircumciſed þ into the nether parts q of the earth, ' which cauſed cheis terrour 7 in the Jand of the living, yet | have they born their ſhame 5s with them that go down to the
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1 The Perſians, and their great famous Kings, who lived in former days. m Ver,22.Jet.c. and wer. 23. letg, h. n Vid. we.22. o See wer. 20. let. y. p Vid. wer. 20. let.z. q Vid. ver. 18. let. d, + See ver. 23. Jet.z. s God and Man poured Contempt upon them, and puniih'd them for their Pride, and turned their Glory into Shame: whoſe Vicesand Miſcarriages are more remembred than their nobl: Fats and glorious Atchievements.
25 They have ſet her a bed * in the midſt of the ſlain « with ail her multitude x : her graves are round about y him : all of them uncircumciſed, lain by the ſword : though their tecrour was cauſed in the land of the living, yet have they born their ſhame & with them that go down to the pit : he is put in the midlt » of rm that be ſlain. |
z Some conceive the Prophet may allude to the Manner of burying with the Perſians; who had-their Coffins,or Sepulchral Cheſts,in which with Balms and Spices the Dead were kept, and theſe Cheſts placed in midſt of Places provided for them ; in ſuch is the King of Z!am here placed with his «flaughtered Captains about him : Vid. ver. 23. ler. b.
x Ver.22.let.c. » Ver. 22, let. d. x Fer. 24. let.s. a See ver. 20, ler. /.
25 There x Meſhech a, Tubal 5, and all her multi- tud2 : her. graves are round about. him : all of them un- circumciſed , ſlain by the ſword, though they cauſed their terrour in the land of the living.
a See chap. 27. ver. 13.let.l. b Vide chap. 27. wer. 1 3. let. k. To which interpretation I {till adhere ; adding, that in the full extent of theſe Moſchi, and Tibareni, theſe Cappadocians and Albanians, the Scy- thians may be included, many of which were next Neighbours to them. Junius 1s of opinion, that the Schytians are here meant, and ſo aml. But 'twill be ſaid, they never had ſuch a ſettled Kingdom worth no- thing. *T5true of that barbarous People, no account that e're they were Lords of the World, yet they cauſed their Terror in the Land of the Living, were lain by the Sword-under the Command, and in the Expeditions of their Kings into 4s, who were accompanied with her Multitudes. 7eleius reports they waſted .4/7a 360 Years before Rome was thought of, and that's about 1082 Years before Chrift's Birth. Again we find them in Arms. ( no doubt in nembers much like what they appeared in, when Tomyris their Queen deſtroyed Cyrus, or when they have moved againſt their Neighbours in latter days) and with thoſe Arms waſted the Cimmerii, a People ſeared near them on the Euxine Sea, and Meotis Palws ; and about. that time they did under their Chiefrains waſte 4/7 ; they forced Ciaxares from the Stege of Ninevch, ſuch conſiderable Strength they were then of : This was 634 before Chriſts Birth, about 117 after Rowe was built. About this time, or in this Expedition. they took Sardis, the Royal Seat of
the Help of Halyatres, King of the Lydians. Theſe things were freſh in memory when Ezekiz! propheſied thus againſt Ezypr ; for they fell ou! abour the eighth or ninth Year of Pharaoh Necho, ſome fourteen Ye3!s before Phararh Hephra came to the Crown ; now about the ſixth Year of his Reign, came this Word of the Lord to Ezekie! ; ſo that the Pro: phet might well mention theſe,as Inſtancesof God's Power abating ths Pride, and deſtroying the Kingdoms of the Mighty, and theſe are wit! reaſon brought in among the Perſiavs and 4ſrians,
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