Ezechiël 31:3

3 Zie, Assur was een ceder op den Libanon, schoon van takken, schaduwachtig van loof, en hoog van stam, en zijn top was tussen dichte takken.

Ezechiël 31:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
Here grew the tallest, most stately, broad and flourishing ones. This sense is, that he was as one of them; comparable to one, for his exaltation and dignity; for the largeness of his dominion, the flourishing circumstances of it, and its long duration; that empire having lasted from the times of Nimrod unto a few years of the present time; for this is to be understood, either of the monarchy itself, or of Esarhaddon; or rather of Chynilidanus, or Saracus, the last king of it. The Septuagint, and Arabic versions render it the "cypariss" in Lebanon; but not that, but the cedar, grew there, and which best suits the comparison: with fair branches;
meaning not children, nor nobles, nor subjects; but provinces, many and large, which were subject to this monarch: and with a shadowing shroud;
power, dominion, authority, a mighty army sufficient to protect all that were under his government, and subject to it: and of an high stature:
exalted above all the kings and kingdoms of the earth: and his top was among the thick boughs;
his kingly power, headship, and dominion, was over a multitude of petty princes and states, comparable to the thick boughs and branches of a tree: or, "among the clouds"; as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it; above the heights of which the Assyrian monarch attempted to ascend, ( Isaiah 14:14 ) ( Daniel 4:10-12 ) .

Ezechiël 31:3 In-Context

1 Het gebeurde ook in het elfde jaar, in de derde maand, op den eersten der maand, dat des HEEREN woord tot mij geschiedde, zeggende:
2 Mensenkind! zeg tot Farao, den koning van Egypte, en tot zijn menigte: Wien zijt gij gelijk in uw grootheid?
3 Zie, Assur was een ceder op den Libanon, schoon van takken, schaduwachtig van loof, en hoog van stam, en zijn top was tussen dichte takken.
4 De wateren maakten hem groot, de afgrond maakte hem hoog; die ging met zijn stromen rondom zijn planting, en zond zijn waterleidingen uit tot alle bomen des velds.
5 Daarom werd zijn stam hoger dan alle bomen des velds; en zijn takjes werden menigvuldig, en zijn scheuten lang, vanwege de grote wateren, als hij uitschoot.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.