Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
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Genesis 2:8The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Isaiah 10:7However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
Isaiah 37:11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
Ezekiel 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.
Ezekiel 31:18“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness amongst the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.”
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 →