Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 32:23

23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is found about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terrour in the land of the living .

At least for Decorum here is supposed a spacious Vault, or Pit, in midst whereof the King of Ahur in a stately Tomb lies buried, and round about the Vault places to lay others dead with him, and in his cause, some of his more famous Captains, and Commanders.

The common Subjects, and Souldiers of the Assyrian Empire, all buried undistinguisht about her, see ver. 22. let. d.

The ruins of an Empire are its Grave, and so all the Subjects of this Empire lie buried with it.

Were a terrour to all they would be Enemies to; and proudly boasted of, and inhumanely used, their power now lie quiet, their dust little regarded, less feared, and least of all pitied.

While they were in the Land of the living, a periphrasis of life.

Marginal references: Or, dismaying.