Ezekiel 32:21
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
KJV
Loquentur ei potentissimi robustorum de medio inferni, qui cum auxiliatoribus ejus descenderunt, et dormierunt incircumcisi interfecti gladio.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐροῦσίν σοι οἱ γίγαντες Ἐν βάθει θορύβου γίνου, τίνος κρείττων εἶ; καὶ κατάβηθι καὶ κοιμήθητι μετὰ ἀπεριτμήτων ἐν μέσῳ τραυματιῶν μαχαίρας.
LXX
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
ASV
יְדַבְּרוּ ל֞/וֹ אֵלֵ֧י גִבּוֹרִ֛ים מִ/תּ֥וֹךְ שְׁא֖וֹל אֶת עֹֽזְרָ֑י/ו יָֽרְד֛וּ שָׁכְב֥וּ הָ/עֲרֵלִ֖ים חַלְלֵי חָֽרֶב
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§633Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.479 Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man L…
Cross-references
- Ezek 28:10 — Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezek 31:18 — To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of t
- Ezek 32:19 — Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
- Ezek 32:19 — Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
- Ezek 32:24 — 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 th
- Ezek 32:27 — And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquit
- Ezek 32:27 — And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquit
- Isa 1:31 — And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
- Isa 1:31 — And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
- Isa 14:9 — Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nation
- Isa 14:9 — Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nation
- Luke 16:23 — And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
- Num 16:30 — But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men hav
- Prov 14:32 — The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Ps 9:17 — The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
- Ps 55:15 — Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.