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Ezekiel 31:11-18

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11 therefore I will give it into the hand of a 1despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have 2driven it away.
12 "3Alien 4tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the 5mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have 6gone down from its shade and left it.
13 "On its ruin all the 7birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches
14 so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the 8earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit."
15 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when it went down to Sheol I 9caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.
16 "I made the nations 10quake at the sound of its fall when I made it 11go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of 12Lebanon, were 13comforted in the earth beneath.
17 "They also 14went down with it to Sheol to those who were 15slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived 16under its shade among the nations.
18 "To which among the trees of Eden are you thus equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the 17uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. 18So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"' declares the Lord GOD."
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Ezekiel 31:11-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 31

This chapter contains a confirmation of the preceding prophecy, of the ruin of the king of Egypt, by the example of the king of Assyria, to whom he was like in grandeur and pride, and would be in his fall. The time of the prophecy is observed, Eze 31:1, the prophet is ordered to give the following relation to the king of Egypt, Eze 31:2 in which the king of Assyria is compared to a large and flourishing cedar, for the extent of his dominions, the prosperous state of his empire, and his exaltation above all other princes, which drew upon him their envy Eze 31:3-9, wherefore because of his pride, his heart being lifted up with these things, Eze 31:10, ruin came upon him; which is described by the instruments and manner of it, and the effects following it; mourning and fear in some, solace and comfort to others, and destruction to his associates, Eze 31:11-17, wherefore Pharaoh is called upon to consider all this, who was like to him in greatness and pride, and should have the like fate with him; nor could his greatness any more secure him than it did the Assyrian monarch, Eze 31:18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 18

  • 1. Ezekiel 30:10, 11; Ezekiel 32:11, 12; Daniel 5:18, 19
  • 2. Deuteronomy 18:12; Nahum 3:18
  • 3. Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 30:12; Habakkuk 1:6
  • 4. Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 30:11; Ezekiel 32:12
  • 5. Ezekiel 32:5; Ezekiel 35:8
  • 6. Ezekiel 31:17; Daniel 4:14; Nahum 3:17, 18
  • 7. Isaiah 18:6; Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 31:6; Ezekiel 32:4
  • 8. Numbers 16:30, 33; Psalms 63:9; Ezekiel 26:20; Ezekiel 31:18; Ezekiel 32:24; Amos 9:2; Jonah 2:2, 6; Ephesians 4:9
  • 9. Ezekiel 32:7; Nahum 2:10
  • 10. Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:28; Haggai 2:7
  • 11. Isaiah 14:15; Ezekiel 32:18
  • 12. Isaiah 14:8; Habakkuk 2:17
  • 13. Ezekiel 14:22, 23; Ezekiel 32:31
  • 14. Psalms 9:17
  • 15. Ezekiel 32:20
  • 16. Ezekiel 31:3, 6; Daniel 4:12
  • 17. Jeremiah 9:25, 26; Ezekiel 28:10; Ezekiel 32:19, 21
  • 18. Psalms 52:7; Matthew 13:19

Footnotes 8

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