Ezekiel 31:9

because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God’s paradise of delight envied him.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

8And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,

10Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast set thy top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;

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Cross References

Genesis 13:10And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until thou come to Zoar.

Genesis 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Judges 9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive, Reign over us.

Psalms 75:6All the simple ones in heart were troubled; 1 All the men of wealth have slept their sleep, 1 And have found nothing in their hands. 1

Proverbs 27:4Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: 1 But envy can bear nothing. 1

Isaiah 51:3And now I will comfort thee, O Zion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

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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