Ezekiel 31:17
Good News Translation
They will go with it to the world of the dead to join those that have already fallen. And all who live under its shadow will be scattered among the nations.

New Revised Standard Version
They also went down to Sheol with it, to those killed by the sword, along with its allies, those who lived in its shade among the nations.

Contemporary English Version
Those people who found protection in its shade will also be sent to the world below, where they will join the dead.

New American Bible
They too will go down to Sheol, to those slain by the sword, Its allies who dwelt in its shade among the nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

went

Ezekiel 32:20-30 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain with the sword: the sword is given, they have drawn her down, and all her people. . . .

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Isaiah 14:9 Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of nations.

that were

Ezekiel 30:6-8,21-25 Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord the God of hosts. . . .

Nehemiah 3:17,18 After him built the Levites, Rehum the son of Benni. After him built Hasebias, lord of half the street of Ceila in his own street. . . .

dwelt

Ezekiel 31:3,6 Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs. . . .

Ezekiel 32:31 Pharao saw them, and he was comforted concerning all his multitude, which was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all his army, saith the Lord God:

Lamentations 4:20 Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken in our sins: to whom we said: Under thy shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

Daniel 4:11,12 He cried aloud, and said thus: Cut down the tree, and chop off the branches thereof: shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruits: let the beasts fly away that are under it, and the birds from its branches. . . .

Mark 4:32 And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof.

Context
Egypt will Fall Like Assyria
16I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth. 17For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.18To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.

Ezekiel 31:6
And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.

Ezekiel 31:12
And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.

Ezekiel 32:20
They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain with the sword: the sword is given, they have drawn her down, and all her people.

Daniel 4:12
Nevertheless, leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and let it be tied with a band of iron and of brass, among the grass, that is without, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion be with the wild beasts in the grass of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:16
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