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Verse Ezekiel 31:15. _I CAUSED LEBANON TO MOURN FOR HIM_] All the
confederates of Pharaoh are represented as deploring his fall, Ezekiel
31:16....
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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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THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol_. App-35....
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Creation puts on mourning and is paralysed at Pharaoh's fall. Lebanon
is covered with blackness, and all the trees faint.
_down to the grave_ to SHEÒL, the place of the dead.
_caused a mourning_ Rath...
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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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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...
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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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THE DEEP.. THE FLOODS (RV 'rivers') .. THE WATERS] those referred to
in Isaiah 14:4. Ezekiel poetically says that the rivers of Egypt would
cease to flow, in token of mourning for the nation's fall....
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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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I COVERED THE DEEP FOR HIM. — Ezekiel 31:15 describe the effect of
Assyria’s fall. Ezekiel 31:15 speaks of the mourning of the nations
and of the drying up of the streams, or sources of Assyria’s
pros...
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כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה בְּ
יֹ֨ום רִדְ
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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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Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I
caused a mourning: I (g) covered the deep for him, and I restrained
its floods, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Leba...
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_Waters, as if they bewailed his fate. (Calmet) --- Those whom the
king of Ninive had exalted, and the people, who wished not to submit
to a foreigner, would no doubt lament the slaughtered monarch, n...
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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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THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, IN THE DAY WHEN HE WENT DOWN TO THE
GRAVE,.... The Assyrian monarch; when his monarchy was destroyed, and
he ceased to be king, and was stripped of all his majesty, power, and...
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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...
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_In the day when he went down to the grave_ This, and the following
verses, are an elegant description of that consternation that seized
the king of Assyria's allies, at the suddenness of his downfall...
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The Lesson of Assyria's Fall...
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Thus saith the Lord God, in describing the impression which the fall
of Assyria made upon other nations and making the application to the
case of Pharaoh, IN THE DAY WHEN HE WENT DOWN TO THE GRAVE, wh...
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TO MOURN:
_ Heb._ to be black...
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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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WHEN HE, the king of Assyria, the tall cedar, or the kingdom of
Assyria, went down to the grave; was a man in grave; buried in its own
ruins. I CAUSED A MOURNING there was much lamentation. I COVERED...
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Ezekiel 31:15 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 day H3117 down
H3381 (H8800) hell H7585 mourning...
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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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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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Malachi 3:4; Nahum 2:8; Revelation 18:18; Revelation 18:19;...
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He — The king of Assyria. A mourning — There was much lamentation.
Fainted — Probably there were portentous signs in the sea, and great
waters, and the rivers, and among the trees....