Ezekiel 31:1
THE ELEVENTH YEAR.. THE THIRD _month_] May-June, 586 b.c., about two months before the fall of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELEVENTH YEAR.. THE THIRD _month_] May-June, 586 b.c., about two months before the fall of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 envy of all the trees (other great empires) in Eden, the garden of God (Ezekiel 31:7). But because of... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ASSYRIAN] has evidently no connexion with the subject of the prophecy, which is Egypt. It has been supposed that the chapter describes the downfall of Assyria, as a type of that of Egypt, but it is much more probable that instead of 'the Assyrian' we should read 'a teasshur' or box-tree, as in E... [ Continue Reading ]
WATERS.. RIVERS] the waters of the Nile. The allegory is not strictly consistent as to locality. The cedar is in Lebanon and also apparently in Eden.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE THEREFORE DELIVERED] RV 'I will even deliver.'... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THAT DRINK WATER] all trees: so in v.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIVERED UNTO DEATH] another instance of Ezekiel's conception of the nations as personified and surviving in the under-world: see Isaiah 14:9.... [ Continue Reading ]