Ezekiel 31:9

Beautiful, 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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

8Cedars 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.

10Therefore Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Because thou hast become lofty in stature, And he hath stretched his top among the clouds, And his heart is exalted in his loftiness.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:10So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered,—before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.

Genesis 37:11Then were his brethren jealous of him, but his father, marked the word.

Judges 9:8The trees, went their way, to anoint over them, a king,—and they said unto the olive tree—Reign thou over us.

Psalms 75:6For neither from east nor west, Nor from the wilderness of the mountains [cometh exaltation];

Proverbs 27:4The cruelty of rage, and the overflow of anger! But who can stand before, jealousy?

Isaiah 51:3For Yahweh hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her waste places, And hath made her wilderness like Eden, And her waste plain like the garden of Yahweh,—Joy and gladness, shall be found in her, Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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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