Whom … pass in beauty i.e. surpass; Ew., pass in fortune. Probably the meaning is very much, To whom art (wast) thou superior? The multitude of Egypt or the Pharaoh as the genius of the nation is addressed, hardly his dead body (Sm.).

go down i.e. to the grave, or pit. "Uncircumcised" has in all the passage the sense of dishonoured, profaned in death, and differs little from slain with the sword, Ezekiel 32:21; Ezekiel 32:24. The pass. imper. "be thou laid" is very rare, Jeremiah 49:8.

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