Ezekiel 31 Study Notes

31:15-17 Though in the OT the godly may express fear of being abandoned by God to Sheol (Ps 88:3), nowhere is a righteous person said actually to have gone to Sheol. The contrast between the destiny of the righteous and the unrighteous after death is most clearly apparent in Ps 49.

31:18 The trees would die disgracefully as uncircumcised foreigners without a decent burial. This reality would be particularly poignant for Egyptian royalty because they built pyramids in the hopes of making themselves comfortable in the afterlife.