Ezekiel 31:7

And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

In Context

6And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.

8The cedars in the paradise of God wars not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.

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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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