Ezekiel 31:1-9

Pharaoh as a Felled Cedar of Lebanon

1 In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: “ ‘Who can be compared with you in majesty?
3 Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest; it towered on high, its top above the thick foliage.
4 The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.
5 So it towered higher than all the trees of the field; its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters.
6 All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.
7 It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the junipers equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches— no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.
9 I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God.

Cross References 17

  • 1. Jeremiah 52:5
  • 2. S Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 32:17
  • 3. S Jeremiah 50:18
  • 4. S 2 Kings 19:23; Habakkuk 2:17; Zechariah 11:1
  • 5. Isaiah 10:34; S Ezekiel 19:11
  • 6. Ezekiel 17:7
  • 7. Daniel 4:10
  • 8. ver 10
  • 9. S Numbers 24:6; S Ezekiel 17:5
  • 10. S Genesis 31:7-9
  • 11. S Ezekiel 17:23; S Matthew 13:32
  • 12. S Job 14:9
  • 13. Psalms 80:10
  • 14. S Genesis 30:37
  • 15. Genesis 2:8-9
  • 16. S Genesis 2:8
  • 17. S Genesis 13:10; Ezekiel 28:13
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