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,
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
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.
the Assyrian
Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey …
Zephaniah 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; …
a cedar
Ezekiel 17:3,4,22 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, …
Isaiah 10:33,34 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: …
Isaiah 37:24 By your servants have you reproached the Lord, and have said, By …
Daniel 4:10,20-23 Thus were the visions of my head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree …
Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: …
with fair branches [heb] fair of branches
of an high
Ezekiel 31:6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under …
Judges 9:15 And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king …
Daniel 4:12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in …
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
his height The Assyrian king, to whom Pharaoh is compared, from his great power, extensive dominion, and the protection that he offered, resembled the spreading branches, thick shade, and high stature of a flourishing cedar on mount Lebanon. The fruitful lands of Assyria; the immense revenues he drew from vast multitudes in his extensive territories; his lucrative commerce, by the river Tigris, with the countries on the Indian ocean; and all the various sources of his wealth and prosperity, resembled the rivers and streams which cause the trees planted by them to grow and flourish exceedingly; and hence the empire and its head were exalted above all the kingdoms of the earth.
Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like …
Isaiah 10:8-14 For he said, Are not my princes altogether kings…
Isaiah 36:4,18,19 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus said the …
Isaiah 37:11-13 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all …
Daniel 4:11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached to …
he shot forth. or, it sent them forth
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
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.
made
Ezekiel 16:14 And your renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty: for …
Exodus 9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to show …
Psalm 75:6,7 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor …
Daniel 2:21,37,38 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets …
Daniel 4:22-25 It is you, O king, that are grown and become strong: for your greatness …
Daniel 5:20-23 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …
all the trees
Ezekiel 17:22,24 Thus said the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of …
Judges 9:8-20 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they …
Isaiah 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains …
Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: …
envied
Genesis 26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great …
Genesis 37:11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.
1 Samuel 18:15 Why when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …
James 4:5,6 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells …
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
Therefore The allegory and its interpretation are here combined; and the Assyrian monarch, though already destroyed, is poetically addressed.
Because
Matthew 23:12 And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall …
and his
Ezekiel 31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves …
Ezekiel 28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted …
2 Chronicles 25:19 You say, See, you have smitten the Edomites; and your heart lifts …
2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …
Job 11:11,12 For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it…
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
Isaiah 14:13-15 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will …
Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …
Obadiah 1:3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts …
James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
delivered
Ezekiel 11:9 And I will bring you out of the middle thereof, and deliver you into …
Ezekiel 21:31 And I will pour out my indignation on you, I will blow against you …
Ezekiel 23:28 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver you into the hand …
Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer …
1 Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, …
the mighty. Nebuchadnezzar, the subverter of the Assyrian empire
Ezekiel 32:11,12 For thus said the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall …
Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …
Daniel 5:18,19 O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, …
he shall surely deal with him [heb] in doing he shall do unto him
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs …
Matthew 7:1,2 Judge not, that you be not judged…
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
I have driven
Leviticus 18:24-28 Defile not you yourselves in any of these things: for in all these …
Leviticus 20:22,23 You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and …
Deuteronomy 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD…
Lamentations 1:21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my …
Nahum 3:18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles shall dwell …
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
strangers
Ezekiel 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations…
Ezekiel 30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be …
Habakkuk 1:6,11 For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, …
upon
Ezekiel 32:4,5 Then will I leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open …
Ezekiel 35:5,8 Because you have had a perpetual hatred…
Ezekiel 39:4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, …
Isaiah 34:5-7 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down …
gone
Daniel 4:12-14 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in …
Nahum 3:17,18 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, …
Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the …
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
the end
Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such …
Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he …
Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil …
Daniel 4:32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with …
Daniel 5:22,23 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though …
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them for ensamples: and they are …
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned …
stand up in their height. or, stand upon themselves for their height.
delivered
Psalm 82:7 But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
the nether
Ezekiel 32:18-32 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, …
Psalm 63:9,10 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower …
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 Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
made
Ezekiel 26:10,15 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: …
Ezekiel 27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
Nahum 2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet…
Haggai 2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall …
Hebrews 12:26,27 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, …
Revelation 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part …
Revelation 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived …
When I
Ezekiel 32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, …
Isaiah 14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
and all
Ezekiel 31:9,18 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all …
Isaiah 14:8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, …
Habakkuk 2:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, …
shall be comforted
Ezekiel 31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves …
Ezekiel 32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, …
Isaiah 14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
went
Ezekiel 32:20-30 They shall fall in the middle of them that are slain by the sword: …
Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Isaiah 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it …
that were
Ezekiel 30:6-8,21-25 Thus said the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the …
Nehemiah 3:17,18 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him …
dwelt
Ezekiel 31:3,6 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and …
Ezekiel 32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, …
Lamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in …
Daniel 4:11,12 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached to …
Mark 4:32 But when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all herbs, …
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
To whom Pharaoh is here called upon to look in his mirror, and see the termination of his glory and greatness.
art thou
Ezekiel 31:2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; …
Ezekiel 32:19 Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised.
with the
Ezekiel 31:9,16 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all …
thou shalt
Ezekiel 28:10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: …
Ezekiel 32:10,19,21,24 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall …
1 Samuel 17:26,36 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall …
2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest …
Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will punish all them …
This is That is, the judgment that befell the king of Assyria, is an exact representation of the destruction that remains for Pharaoh and all his people.
2 Chronicles 28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against …
Psalm 52:7 See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted …
Matthew 13:19 When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, …
Matthew 26:26-28 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke …
1 Corinthians 10:14 Why, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
