Ezekiel 31:18

Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

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To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

17And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:36Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.

2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:25See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;

Ezekiel 31:2Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?

Ezekiel 31:16I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.

Ezekiel 32:19Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision,

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:11-18

The King of Assyria's Downfall; The Fall of Assyria. ( b. c. 588.) 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the… Read the whole commentary →

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