And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, and whose shields are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty was in the land of the living, portraying these lesser powers excluded from the honored graves of the mighty, their weapons accompanying them in Sheol. The placement of weapons and shields beside bones suggests attempts to maintain martial status even in death, while the exclusion from the mighty's graves indicates a lower Sheol status.

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