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Ezekiel 31:10-14

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10 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Because * it is high in stature and has set its top among the clouds, and its 1heart is haughty in its loftiness,
11 therefore I will give it into the hand of a 2despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have 3driven it away.
12 "4Alien 5tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the 6mountains 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 7gone down from its shade and left it.
13 "On its ruin all the 8birds 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 9earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit."
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Ezekiel 31:10-14 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 9

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 32:25; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 14:13, 14; Ezekiel 28:17; Daniel 5:20
  • 2. Ezekiel 30:10, 11; Ezekiel 32:11, 12; Daniel 5:18, 19
  • 3. Deuteronomy 18:12; Nahum 3:18
  • 4. Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 30:12; Habakkuk 1:6
  • 5. Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 30:11; Ezekiel 32:12
  • 6. Ezekiel 32:5; Ezekiel 35:8
  • 7. Ezekiel 31:17; Daniel 4:14; Nahum 3:17, 18
  • 8. Isaiah 18:6; Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 31:6; Ezekiel 32:4
  • 9. 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

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
  • [b]. Lit "you are"
  • [c]. Or "thick boughs"
  • [d]. Or "mighty one"
  • [e]. Or "thick boughs"
  • [f]. Lit "drinkers of water"
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