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. In its dying days, the once-mighty Assyrian Empire looked to Egypt for help against the growing power... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 31:8 The GARDEN OF GOD is mentioned three times and compared with EDEN (also vv. Ezekiel 31:16, Ezekiel 31:18). I (God) MADE IT BEAUTIFUL, leaving no room for self-admiration (v. Ezekiel 31:9). ⇐... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 31:10 MIGHTY ONE OF THE NATIONS, paralleled by the MOST RUTHLESS OF NATIONS, refers elsewhere to Babylon (Ezekiel 28:7). Those who once prospered in Egypt’s SHADOW now leave it. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]