Ezekiel 31:9

Beautiful had I made it by the multitude of its light branches: so that all the trees of 'Eden that were in the garden of God, envied it.

Leeser Tanakh

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 could not obscure it in the garden of God; the firs were not like its boughs, and the chestnut-trees were not like its branches: not any tree in the garden of God was like unto it in its beauty.

10Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Because thou wast so high in stature, and it had placed its highest branch between the thick-boughed trees, and its heart was lifted up through its height:

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Cross References

Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere; before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [it was] like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, till thou comest unto Zoar.

Genesis 37:11And his brothers envied him; but his father noted the matter [in his mind].

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

Psalms 75:6(75:7) For neither from the rising [of the sun], nor from [his] setting, nor from the wilderness of mountains [cometh this];

Proverbs 27:4Fury hath its cruelty, and anger its overwhelming power; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Isaiah 51:3Yea, the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her ruins; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord: 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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