Ezekiel 31:1
It happened in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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2"Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: 'Whom are you like in your greatness?
Cross References
Jeremiah 43:8Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Jeremiah 52:5So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Ezekiel 8:1It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there on me.
Ezekiel 32:32"For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude," says the Lord God.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:1
The prophecy of this chapter, as the two chapters before, is against Egypt, and designed for the humbling and mortifying of Pharaoh. In passing sentence upon great criminals it is usual to consult precedents, and to see what has been done to others in the like case, which serves both to direct and to justify the proceedings. Pharaoh stands indicted at the bar of divine justice for his pride and haughtiness, and the injuries he had done to God's people; but he thinks himself so high, so great, as not to be… Read the whole commentary →