Ezekiel 31:18

To whom are you compared? descend, and be you debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharao be, and the multitude of his host, says the Lord God.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

17For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that lived under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them: shall I not go and strike him, and remove this day a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?

2 Chronicles 28:22but only troubled him in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and king Achaz said,

Jeremiah 9:25Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision;

Ezekiel 31:2Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude; To whom have you compared yourself in your haughtiness?

Ezekiel 31:16At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of plants of Libanus, all that drink water.

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 →

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