Ezekiel 31:18
To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
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1 Samuel 17:36For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?
2 Chronicles 28:22Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,
Jeremiah 9:25Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised.
Ezekiel 31:2Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Ezekiel 31:16I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 32:19Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised.
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 →