Ezekiel 32:27

32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, ¹  who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, ²  when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 36:11

36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. ³  I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. ⁴  Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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¹ 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.

² 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.

³ sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.

⁴ tn Heb “your beginning.”