Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 32:26

26 There is Meshech , Tubal , and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terrour in the land of the living.

See chap. 27. [illegible: 1 word]. 13. let. l.

Vid. c[illegible: 1 letter]ap. 27. ver. 13. let. k. to which interpre[illegible: 2 letters]tion I still adhere, adding that in the full extent of these Mos[illegible: 1 letter]hi, and [illegible: 1 word], these Cappado[illegible: 1 letter]ians, and Albanians, the [illegible: 1 word] may be in[illegible: 1 letter]luded, many of which were next Neighbours to them. [illegible: 1 word] i[illegible: 1 letter] of opinion that the [illegible: 1 word] are here meant, and so am I, but 'twill be said, they never had such a se[illegible: 1 letter]le[illegible: 1 letter] Kingdom worth noting. 'Tis true of that barbarous people no account, that ere they were Lords of the World yet they caused their terrour in the Land of the Living, were slain by the Sword under the Command and in the Expeditions of their Kings into Asi[illegible: 1 letter], who were accompanied with her multitudes. [illegible: 1 word] reports they wasted Asia 3[illegible: 1 letter]0 years before Ro[illegible: 2 letters] was thought of, and that's about 1082 years before Christ's b[illegible: 1 letter]rth. Again we find them in armes, (no doubt in numbers much like what they appeared in, when To[illegible: 2 letters]ris their Queen destroyed C[illegible: 1 letter]rus, or when they have moved against their Neighbours in later dayes) and with those armes wasted the Cimmerii, a people seated near them on the Euxine Sea, and M[illegible: 1 letter]otis pal[illegible: 1 letter]s, and about that time they did under their Chief[illegible: 1 letter]ains waste Asia, they forced Cyaxares from the siege of Ni[illegible: 1 letter]eve[illegible: 1 letter] such consi[illegible: 2 letters]rable strength they were then of, this was 634 before Christ's birth, about 117 after Rome was built; about this time, or in this expedition, they took Sardis the Royal seat of Crae[illegible: 1 letter]us, Mag[illegible: 1 letter]is [illegible: 1 word] sardibus [illegible: 1 word]. ad A[illegible: 1 letter]n. m. 3340. to which Ovid gave the Title of Great, only the Castle held out. These Scythians in those days were a terrour to the Nations. Nay Hel[illegible: 1 letter]ious tells me from Herodotus, that they had the Imperial Power, were Lords of Asia for 28 years, and it seems, that their power was such, Cyaxares was glad to decline plain dealing, and to overthrow them by a wile, as Calvisius tells us ad Ann. M. 3344, and the help of Halyattes, King of the Lydians. These things were fresh in memory when Ezekiel prophesied thus against Egypt, for they fell out about the Eighth or Ninth year of Pharaoh Necho, some Fourteen years before Pharaoh Hophra came to the Crown; now about the Sixth year of his Reign, came this word of the Lord to Ezekiel; so that the Prophet might well mention these, as instances of Gods power abating the pride, and destroying the Kingdome of the Mighty, and these are with reason brought in among the Persians, and Assyrians.

Marginal references: Mag[illegible: 1 letter]is [illegible: 1 word] sardibus [illegible: 1 word]. ad A[illegible: 1 letter]n. m. 3340.