Ezekiel 32:22
New International Version
“Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword.

New Living Translation
“Assyria lies there surrounded by the graves of its army, those who were slaughtered by the sword.

English Standard Version
“Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,

Berean Standard Bible
Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

King James Bible
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

New King James Version
“Assyria is there, and all her company, With their graves all around her, All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

New American Standard Bible
“Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are all around her. All of them killed, fallen by the sword,

NASB 1995
“Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

NASB 1977
“Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

Legacy Standard Bible
“Assyria is there and all her assembly; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

Amplified Bible
“Assyria is there with all her warriors; their graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

Christian Standard Bible
“Assyria is there with her whole assembly; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Assyria is there with all her company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

American Standard Version
Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

English Revised Version
Asshur is there and all her company; his graves are round about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Assyria is there with its whole army, and the graves of its soldiers are all around it. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle.

Good News Translation
"Assyria is there, with the graves of her soldiers all around. They were all killed in battle,

International Standard Version
Assyria will be there, along with all of those who keep company with her, all of them killed violently.

Majority Standard Bible
Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

NET Bible
"Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword.

New Heart English Bible
"Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are all around her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

Webster's Bible Translation
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

World English Bible
“Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
There [is] Asshur, and all her assembly, "" His graves [are] around him, "" All of them [are] wounded, who are falling by sword,

Young's Literal Translation
There is Asshur, and all her assembly, Round about him are his graves, All of them are wounded, who are falling by sword,

Smith's Literal Translation
Assur there and all her convocation; his graves round about him: all of them wounded, fallen by the sword.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Assur is there, and all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of them slain, and that fell by the sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Assur is in that place, with all his multitude. Their graves are all around him: all of the slain and those who fell by the sword.

New American Bible
There is Assyria and all its company, around it are its graves, all of them slain, fallen by the sword.

New Revised Standard Version
Assyria is there, and all its company, their graves all around it, all of them killed, fallen by the sword.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Assyria is there and all her people round about her grave; all of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
There is Assyria, and all her multitude around her grave are all the slain who fell by the sword
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Asshur is there and all her company; their graves are round about them; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There are Assur and all his company: all his slain have been laid there:

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Egypt Cast into the Pit
21Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’ 22Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. 23Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.…

Cross References
Isaiah 14:9-11
Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones. / They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!” / Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

Jeremiah 50:21-23
Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD. / “The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction. / How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Ezekiel 31:3-14
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds. / The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field. / Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters. ...

Isaiah 10:5-19
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. / But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations. ...

Revelation 18:2-3
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast. / All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

Jeremiah 51:39-40
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD. / I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Isaiah 14:4-6
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! / The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. / It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

Revelation 19:17-18
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, / so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. / She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. / But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. ...

Jeremiah 50:31-32
“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. / The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”

Revelation 14:8
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Isaiah 30:31-33
For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter. / And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished. / For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Jeremiah 51:24-26
Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD. / “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain. / No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.

Revelation 17:1-2
Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”

Isaiah 47:1-3
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”


Treasury of Scripture

Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

Ezekiel 32:24,26,29,30
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit…

Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

Assur

Isaiah 30:33
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 37:36-38
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses…

Nahum 1:7-12
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him…

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Ezekiel 32
1. A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt
11. The sword of Babylon shall destroy it
17. It shall be brought down to hell, among all the uncircumcised nations














Assyria is there with her whole company;
Assyria, once a dominant empire known for its military prowess and conquests, is depicted here as being in Sheol, the realm of the dead. This reflects the historical reality of Assyria's fall, which occurred in 612 BC with the destruction of Nineveh. The "whole company" suggests the entirety of Assyria's might and people, emphasizing the totality of their defeat. This serves as a reminder of the transient nature of earthly power and the ultimate sovereignty of God over nations. Assyria's presence in this context is a fulfillment of prophetic warnings given by prophets like Isaiah and Nahum, who foretold its downfall due to its pride and cruelty.

her graves are all around her.
The imagery of graves surrounding Assyria underscores the completeness of its destruction. In ancient Near Eastern culture, burial practices were significant, and being surrounded by graves could symbolize dishonor and defeat. This phrase highlights the finality of Assyria's judgment, as they are not only defeated but also buried in disgrace. The graves serve as a testament to the consequences of defying God and oppressing His people, as Assyria did during its campaigns against Israel and Judah.

All of them are slain,
The phrase "all of them are slain" emphasizes the totality of the judgment against Assyria. It reflects the historical reality of the Assyrian army's defeat and the subsequent collapse of their empire. This serves as a warning to other nations and leaders about the dangers of pride and reliance on military strength. Biblically, it echoes the fate of other nations that opposed God's will, such as Egypt and Babylon, reinforcing the theme of divine justice.

fallen by the sword.
The sword is a common biblical symbol of warfare and divine judgment. The Assyrians, known for their brutal military tactics, meet their end through the very means they often employed against others. This phrase connects to the broader biblical narrative where God uses nations as instruments of judgment but also holds them accountable for their actions. The fall of Assyria by the sword serves as a type of Christ's ultimate victory over sin and death, where He conquers not through violence but through sacrificial love.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Assyria
A powerful ancient empire known for its military might and conquests. In the context of Ezekiel, Assyria represents a nation judged by God for its pride and wickedness.

2. Graves
Symbolic of death and judgment, the graves around Assyria signify the downfall and destruction of those who opposed God.

3. The Slain
Refers to the fallen soldiers and people of Assyria who have been judged and defeated, emphasizing the consequences of defying God.
Teaching Points
The Consequences of Pride
Assyria's downfall serves as a warning against pride and self-reliance. Nations and individuals alike must recognize their dependence on God.

Divine Justice
God's judgment is inevitable for those who oppose Him. This passage reminds us of the certainty of divine justice and the importance of aligning with God's will.

Historical Lessons
The historical context of Assyria's fall provides a lesson on the transient nature of earthly power and the enduring sovereignty of God.

Repentance and Humility
The fate of Assyria calls believers to examine their own lives for areas of pride and to seek repentance and humility before God.

Hope in God's Sovereignty
Even in the face of powerful adversaries, believers can find hope in the knowledge that God is ultimately in control and will bring about His righteous purposes.(22) Asshur is there.--In the previous verses we have had a general picture of the fallen nations awaiting to receive Egypt as their companion; in Ezekiel 32:22-30 there follows an enumeration of the most prominent of them, with a few words about each. Some of them were not yet fallen; but in this prophetic view it is their ultimate condition which rises to the prophet's mind. All worldly power that opposes itself to God must go down and share the judgment soon to fall on Egypt.

His graves are about him.--The graves of the people are about those of their monarch. All are fallen together into one common ruin.

Verses 22, 23 - Asshur is there. The verses that follow contain, as it were, the prophet's retrospect of the history of the past, as far as he had knowledge of it. Foremost in those is Assyria, which the prophet had already chosen (Ezekiel 31:3) as the pattern instance of a fallen greatness. There in the sides of the pit (i.e. in its remotest and deepest regions) lie the graves of the rulers surrounded by those of their subjects. They had caused terror, the prophet adds, with a keen irony, in the land of the living. They can cause no terror now.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Assyria
אַשּׁוּר֙ (’aš·šūr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 804: Ashshur

is there
שָׁ֤ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

with her whole
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

company;
קְהָלָ֔הּ (qə·hā·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

her graves
קִבְרֹתָ֑יו (qiḇ·rō·ṯāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6913: A grave, sepulcher

are all around her.
סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֖יו (sə·ḇî·ḇō·w·ṯāw)
Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

All of them
כֻּלָּ֣ם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

are slain,
חֲלָלִ֔ים (ḥă·lā·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2491: Pierced, polluted

fallen
הַנֹּפְלִ֖ים (han·nō·p̄ə·lîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

by the sword.
בֶּחָֽרֶב׃ (be·ḥā·reḇ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword


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