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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 31:3 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 31:3 |
Strong Concordance |
Behold, the Assyrian [0804] was a cedar [0730] in Lebanon [03844] with fair [03303] branches [06057], and with a shadowing [06751] shroud [02793], and of an high [01362] stature [06967]; and his top [06788] was among the thick boughs [05688]. |
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King James |
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
He illustrates the pride and the consequent overthrow of the Assyrian, that Egypt may the better know what she must expect.
cedar in Lebanon--often eighty feet high, and the diameter of the space covered by its boughs still greater: the symmetry perfect. Compare the similar image (Eze 17:3; Dan 4:20-22).
with a shadowing shroud--with an overshadowing thicket.
top . . . among . . . thick boughs--rather [HENGSTENBERG], "among the clouds." But English Version agrees better with the Hebrew. The top, or topmost shoot, represents the king; the thick boughs, the large resources of the empire. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 of the Babylonians and Medes, in the year of the battle of Carchemish (605 b.c.), which had broken the power of Egypt. This gives force to the warning to Egypt from Assyria's fall.
Eze 31:4
His plants - Rather, her plantation. The water represents the riches and might which flowed into Assyria.
Eze 31:5
When be shot forth - Or, when the deep water sent forth its streams.
Eze 31:8
Garden of God - Paradise. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| A cedar - Like the most goodly cedar for strength and beauty. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar - Why is the Assyrian introduced here, when the whole chapter concerns Egypt? Bp. Lowth has shown that אשור ארז ashshur erez should be translated the tall cedar, the very stately cedar; hence there is reference to his lofty top; and all the following description belongs to Egypt, not to Assyria. But see on Eze 31:11 (note). |
20 The tree [0363] that thou sawest [02370], which grew [07236], and was strong [08631], whose height [07314] reached [04291] unto the heaven [08065], and the sight [02379] thereof to all [03606] the earth [0772];
21 Whose leaves [06074] were fair [08209], and the fruit [04] thereof much [07690], and in it was meat [04203] for all [03606]; under [08460] which the beasts [02423] of the field [01251] dwelt [01753], and upon whose branches [06056] the fowls [06853] of the heaven [08065] had their habitation [07932]:
22 It is thou [0607], O king [04430], that art grown [07236] and become strong [08631]: for thy greatness [07238] is grown [07236], and reacheth [04291] unto heaven [08065], and thy dominion [07985] to the end [05491] of the earth [0772].
3 And say [0559], Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; A great [01419] eagle [05404] with great [01419] wings [03671], longwinged [083] [0750], full [04392] of feathers [05133], which had divers colours [07553], came [0935] unto Lebanon [03844], and took [03947] the highest branch [06788] of the cedar [0730]:
8 The cedars [0730] in the garden [01588] of God [0430] could not hide [06004] him: the fir trees [01265] were not like [01819] his boughs [05589], and the chesnut trees [06196] were not like his branches [06288]; nor any tree [06086] in the garden [01588] of God [0430] was like [01819] unto him in his beauty [03308].
5 Therefore his height [06967] was exalted [01361] above all the trees [06086] of the field [07704], and his boughs [05634] were multiplied [07235], and his branches [06288] became long [0748] because of the multitude [07227] of waters [04325], when he shot forth [07971].
4 The waters [04325] made him great [01431], the deep [08415] set him up on high [07311] with her rivers [05104] running [01980] round about [05439] his plants [04302], and sent out [07971] her little rivers [08585] unto all the trees [06086] of the field [07704].
11 I have therefore delivered [05414] him into the hand [03027] of the mighty one [0410] of the heathen [01471]; he shall surely [06213] deal [06213] with him: I have driven him out [01644] for his wickedness [07562].