Ezekiel 31:18
“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among 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.”
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1 Samuel 17:36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
2 Chronicles 28:22In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this same King Ahaz.
Jeremiah 9:25“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
Ezekiel 31:2“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
Ezekiel 31:16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 32:19Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
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 →