Ezekiel 31:8

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

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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 was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

9I 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.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:8And the 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, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Isaiah 10:7Nevertheless he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Isaiah 37:11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shall you be delivered?

Ezekiel 28:13You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your timbrels and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.

Ezekiel 31:18To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be 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 →

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