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Ezekiel 31:9

have made him fair I made him fair. But the idea of his beauty being conferred by God is foreign to the connexion. His stateliness was due to his great waters, beside which he was planted; it was the fruit of nature, which in this passage is rather contrasted with God. The words are wanting in LXX., and may be a marginal gloss on "beauty," which a reader attributed to God. If the words be omitted, the last clause of Ezekiel 31:8 should probably be closely connected with Ezekiel 31:9: "and no tree in the garden of God was like unto him, because of (in) the multitude of his branches."

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EDEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 2). Compare Ezekiel 28:13. App-92....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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)...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יָפֶ֣ה עֲשִׂיתִ֔יו בְּ רֹ֖ב דָּֽלִיֹּותָ֑יו וַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE MADE HIM FAIR BY THE MULTITUDE OF HIS BRANCHES,.... Or provinces, the extensiveness of his dominions: all his power and strength, riches and wealth, grandeur and glory, and the vast dominions h...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 9. So that all the trees of Eden … envied him.] _Summa petit l...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    COMPARISON BETWEEN PHARAOH'S POWER AND THAT OF ASSYRIA...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I HAVE MADE HIM FAIR; all this greatness, wealth, and glory I have given him. BY THE MULTITUDE OF HIS BRANCHES; the numbers of his provinces, and multitude of his subjects, high and low, great and sma...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 31:9 made H6213 (H8804) beautiful H3303 multitude H7230 branches H1808 trees H6086 Eden H5731 envied H7065 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him, the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the plane trees were not as his branches. Nor was any tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 31:8 The GARDEN OF GOD is mentioned three times and compared with EDEN (also vv. Ezekiel 31:16,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 18:15; Daniel 2:21; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 4:22;...

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