Ezekiel 31:8

Cedars hid him not. in the garden of God, Fir-trees were not like unto his boughs, Nor plane-trees, like his branches,—no, tree in the garden of God, was like unto him in his beauty.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

In Context

7Thus became he beautiful in his greatness, In the length of his waving branches, Because his root had gone towards mighty waters.

9Beautiful, I made him in the abundance of his waving branches,- Therefore was he envied by all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:8And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, on the east,—and put there the man whom he had formed.

Psalms 37:35I have seen a lawless man, a tyrant, and spreading himself out, like a cedar in Lebanon;

Isaiah 10:7But as for him, not so, doth he deem, And in his heart, not so, doth he think,—For, to destroy, is in his heart, And to cut off nations, not a few;

Isaiah 37:11Lo! thou, thyself, hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands in devoting them to destruction,—and shalt, thou, be delivered?

Ezekiel 28:13In Eden the garden of God, thou wast. Of every precious stone, was thy covering-Sardius. topaz, and diamond, Chrysolite beryl, and jasper, Sapphire carbuncle and emerald,- And of gold, was the work of thy timbrels and thy flutes within thee, In the day thou wast created, were they prepared:

Ezekiel 31:18Unto whom couldst thou be likened thus, in glory and in greatness, among the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be caused to descend with the trees of Eden into the earth below In the midst of the uncircumcised, shalt thou lie down With them who were thrust through by the sword, the same, is Pharaoh and all his multitude, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

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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