Ezekiel 31:7

It was beautiful and majestic with its long branches, because its roots reached down to the plentiful water.

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

In Context

6All kinds of birds nested in its branches, while underneath it different wild animals had their young, and all the powerful nations lived in its shade.

8The cedars in God's garden were no match for it. No pine tree had such great branches, nor did any plane tree. No tree in God's garden was as beautiful.

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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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