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.
Ver. 6. All the fowls.] See Daniel 4:12 .
Fifth prophecy against Egypt: a warning to Pharaoh from the fate of the Assyrians. The Assyrian empire, after having been supreme in Asia for four centuries, had been overthrown by the united forces o...
Ezekiel 31:1. Pharaoh's greatness is described in the first part of the chapter (Ezekiel 31:1). He is compared to the Assyrian, once so powerful and proud. The fall and desolation of the proud monarch...
EZEKIEL 31. FALLEN IS THE MIGHTY CEDAR. In this striking poem, Pharaoh (= Egypt) is likened to a cedar of surprising height and beauty, fed by the waters of the deep (_i.e._ the Nile) and giving shelt...
BOUGHS. arms. Occurs only here and in 31:8....
The "fowls" and "beasts" are as much figurative as the tree; they are probably interpreted by "nations" in the end of the verse; cf. Ezekiel 17:23; Daniel 4:12; Daniel 4:14. But see...
A. The Description of the Cedar 31:1-9 TRANSLATION (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)...
V. THE GREAT CEDAR TREE 31:1-18 This oracle follows the preceding one by some two months. The date according to the present calendar would be June 21, 587 B.C. (Ezekiel 31:1). In the first unit of thi...
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 O...
THE FALL OF THE GREAT CEDAR Egypt was a stately cedar, thick, lofty, and spreading; sheltering all the fowls and beasts (the nations) in its branches and under its shadow (Ezekiel 31:1). It was the en...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 31 AS ASSYRIA *FELL SO EGYPT WILL *FALL – EZEKIEL 31:1-18...
ALL THE FOWLS OF HEAVEN. — Comp. Ezekiel 17:23; Daniel 4:21....
בִּ סְעַפֹּתָ֤יו קִֽנְנוּ֙ כָּל ־עֹ֣וף הַ שּׁ
EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:1; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power
The fifth prophecy was directed against the greatness of Pharaoh. Ezekiel was commanded to address himself to Pharaoh and his multitudes. This he did, first by describing his greatness. He fist asked,...
It is worthy the Reader's remark, that while the Lord is chastising his own people, the rod is exercised over numbers of the surrounding nations. We have here the humbling of Egypt still threatened, a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29, 30, 31, AND 32. Chapter s 29-32 contain the judgment of Egypt. Egypt sought, in the self-will of man, to take the place which God had in fact given to Neb...
ALL THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVENS MADE THEIR NESTS IN HIS BOUGHS,.... People from all parts of the world, under the whole heavens, flocked to his dominions, and settled themselves in one province or anothe...
_Behold the Assyrian_ This, says Archbishop Secker, seems an admonitory comparison of Pharaoh to the late Assyrian monarch, applied to Pharaoh, Ezekiel 31:18. By _the Assyrian_, compared here to a tal...
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, that is, all the p...
COMPARISON BETWEEN PHARAOH'S POWER AND THAT OF ASSYRIA...
1-9 The falls of others, both into sin and ruin, warn us not to be secure or high-minded. The prophet is to show an instance of one whom the king of Egypt resembled in greatness, the Assyrian, compar...
ALL THE FOWLS; not every individual, but all sorts and kinds of men and people, nobles, merchants, husbandmen, likened to fowls. MADE THEIR NESTS; did settle their habitations and families, expecting...
“Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the forest, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long by reason of many waters when he shot them forth. All the birds of the...
CONTENTS: Prophecy against Pharaoh. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: It is rare to find a humble spirit in the midst of great advancement. God can easily expel those who think themselv...
Ezekiel 31:1. _In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day,_ about a month before Jerusalem was taken by storm. Ezekiel 31:3 ; EZEKIEL 31:8. _The Assyrian was a_ (tall) _cedar._ The Vul...
_The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon._ THE CEDAR IN LEBANON I. The soul that will not grow down must be cut down. Trees that are to stand the storm must send their roots deep into the earth. A man t...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 31:1 Ezekiel’s fifth oracle against Egypt dates to June 587 B.C., only a few weeks after the preceding unit. Here the prophet points to Assyria as an object lesson for Egypt. I...
THE DESTRUCTION OF ASSYRIA A TYPE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EGYPT. (Chap. 31) (Ezekiel 31:1.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 31:1. “In the eleventh year, in the third month.” Two months later than the prophe...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 31:1 IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR, etc. June, B.C. 586. Two months all but six days had passed since the utterance of Ezekiel 30:20, when Ezekiel was moved to expand his prediction of the...
Shall we turn now to Ezekiel, chapter 31. In Chapter s 29 and 30 of Ezekiel, he was prophesying concerning the judgment of God that was to come against the nation of Egypt, who was like a reed when Is...
Daniel 4:12; Daniel 4:21; Ezekiel 17:23; Matthew 13:32...