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Effect of Assyria’s fall.
Ezekiel 31:15
I COVERED THE DEEP - To cover with sack-cloth was an expression of
mourning Ezekiel 27:31. The deep, the source of Assyria’s prosperity...
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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...
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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...
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I EAST GIM DOWN. I caused tint to descend.
HELL. Sheol. Same word as "the grave" in Ezekiel 31:15. the pit.
Hebrew. _bor_. Showing the sense in which Sheol is used in Ezekiel
31:15 and Ezekiel 31:16....
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_at the sound of his fall_ See on Ezekiel 26:15; cf. Ezekiel 32:10.
_to hell … into the pit_ to SHEÒL with them that ARE GONE DOWN to
the pit, ch. Ezekiel 32:18;...
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WITH THEM THAT DESCEND, &C.— _To those who have descended,_ &c. _At
the same time all the trees,_ &c. Houbigant. That is to say, all the
deceased princes, confederates with Pharaoh....
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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...
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C. The Descent of the Cedar 31:15-18
TRANSLATION
(15) Thus says the Lord GOD: In the day he went down to Sheol I caused
the deep to mourn and cover over him, and I held back her rivers, and
the great...
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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...
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DELIVERED UNTO DEATH] another instance of Ezekiel's conception of the
nations as personified and surviving in the under-world: see Isaiah
14:9....
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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...
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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...
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HELL is here, as generally, Sheol, or Hades, the world of the
departed.
SHALL BE COMFORTED. — Comp. Isaiah 14:9, which was probably in
Ezekiel’s mind....
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מִ קֹּ֤ול מַפַּלְתֹּו֙
הִרְעַ֣שְׁתִּי גֹויִ֔ם בְּ...
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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
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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,...
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I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him
down to the grave with them that descend into the pit: and all the
trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink w...
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_Comforted. The ghosts of princes who had been subject to Serac,
seeing his fall, bore their own misfortune with greater content. In
the grave there is no distinction of master and slave. (Calmet) ---...
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Nothing can be more highly figurative than what is here said, and
nothing more beautiful and exact in description. Who is this mighty
Monarch of Assyria, or of Egypt, but the proud foes of Israel? and...
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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...
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I MADE THE NATIONS TO SHAKE AT THE SOUND OF HIS FALL,.... As, when a
large cedar was cut down and fell in Lebanon, the noise of it was
heard at a distance; so when this mighty monarch and monarchy fel...
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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,...
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_I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall_ Through fear
and terror. _When I cast him down to hell_ Rather, to the grave; _with
them that descend into the pit_ That die and are buried. _All...
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I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, foreseeing in
his overthrow a similar calamity for themselves, WHEN I CAST HIM DOWN
TO HELL WITH THEM THAT DESCEND INTO THE PIT, to the kingdom of...
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The Lesson of Assyria's Fall...
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10-18 The king of Egypt resembled the king of Assyria in his
greatness: here we see he resembles him in his pride. And he shall
resemble him in his fall. His own sin brings his ruin. None of our
comf...
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TO SHAKE; all that heard the noise of his fall trembled at it, it was
as God intended it should be, an astonishment to them all. CAST HIM
DOWN TO HELL; brought the king and kingdom, as a dead man, to...
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Ezekiel 31:6 birds H5775 heavens H8064 nests H7077 (H8765) boughs
H5589 branches H6288 beasts H2416 field...
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THE DESCENT INTO SHEOL (EZEKIEL 31:15).
“Thus says the Lord Yahweh, In the day when he went down to Sheol I
caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its
rivers, and the great wa...
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HELL
Hebrew, "Sheol,"
(_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 26:10; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:28; Ezekiel 31:14; E