32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. 3 All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living. 32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, 4 who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, 5 when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.
1 tn Heb “whose.”
2 tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.
3 tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).
4 tc Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.
5 tn Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.