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, Not that Egypt was, like Assyria utterly to cease to be, but it was, like Assyria, to lose its prominence in the empire of the world. IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? WHOM ART THOU LIKE IN THY GREATNESS? (Ezek. 5:18 .) The answer is, Thou art like the hau... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. BEHOLD, THE ASSYRIAN WAS A CEDAR IN LEBANON. He illustrates the pride and the consequent overthrow of the Assyrian, that Egypt may the bett... [ Continue Reading ]
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. THE WATERS MADE HIM GREAT, THE DEEP ... SENT OUT HER LITTLE RIVERS - the Tigris, with its branches and rivulets, or conduits for... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. HIS BRANCHES BECAME LONG, BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE OF WATERS, WHEN HE SHOT FORTH - because of the abundant moist... [ Continue Reading ]
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. ALL THE FOWLS OF HEAVEN MADE THEIR NESTS IN HIS BOUGHS - so "under it (the goodly cedar in the mountain of the hei... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS WAS HE FAIR IN HIS GREATNESS, IN THE LENGTH OF HIS BRANCHES: FOR HIS ROOT WAS BY GREAT WATERS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. CEDARS IN THE GARDEN OF GOD COULD NOT HIDE HIM - could not out-top him. No other king... [ Continue Reading ]
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. I HAVE MADE HIM FAIR - it was all due to my free grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
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; BECAUSE THOU HAST LIFTED UP THYSELF IN HEIGHT, AND HE HATH SHOT UP HIS TOP. The change of persons is because the languag... [ Continue Reading ]
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. I HAVE THEREFORE DELIVERED HIM INTO THE HAND OF THE MIGHTY ONE OF THE HEATHEN. Here the literal supersedes the figurative. HE SHALL SURELY DEAL... [ Continue Reading ]
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. ALL THE P... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: UPON HIS RUIN SHALL ALL THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN REMAIN, AND ALL THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD - birds and beasts shall insult over his fallen trunk.... [ Continue Reading ]
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. I COVERED THE DEEP FOR... [ Continue Reading ]
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. I MADE THE NATIONS TO SHAKE AT ... HIS FAL... [ Continue Reading ]
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. THEY THAT WERE HIS ARM, THAT DWELT UNDER HIS SHADOW IN THE MIDST OF THE HEATHEN - those who were the helpers or tools of his tyranny... [ Continue Reading ]
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith... [ Continue Reading ]