Ezekiel 31:9

I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

In Context

8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

10Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast lifted up thyself in stature, and he hath set his top amidst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

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Cross References

Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.

Genesis 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.

Judges 9:8The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive-tree, Reign over us.

Psalms 75:6For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation [come]:

Proverbs 27:4Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Isaiah 51:3For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:2-10

The King of Assyria's Greatness. ( b. c. 588.) 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with… Read the whole commentary →

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