Ezekiel 31:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Ezekiel 31:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 force...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 sh...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos . App-6 the Assyrian. Ginsburg thinks this should read teashshur (=. box. tree) instead of. ashshur (= an Assyrian). There is no article; and Egypt is th...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar - Why i...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, the Assyrian, &c.— This parable, says Bishop Lowth, owes much to Meibomius, who translates אשׁור Ashur, tall, straight, an epithet of the cedar; and not Assyrian, which can have no...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar i...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 31:1-6 ). It wa...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A cedar in Lebanon. — Lebanon is mentioned only because it was the place where the most famous cedars grew in their greatest perfection. Assyria did, indeed, at one time possess Lebanon, but this w...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1-21 ; Ezekiel 30:1-26 ; Ezekiel 31:1-18 ; Ezekiel 32:1-32 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power cherishing projects of universal dominion. Once...
Ezekiel 31:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is worthy the Reader's remark, that while the Lord is chastising his own people, the rod is exercised over numbers of the surrounding nations. We have here the humbling of Egypt still threatened,...
Ezekiel 31:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon ,.... Here grew the tallest, most stately, broad and flourishing ones. This sense is, that he was as one of them; comparable to one, for his exaltation an...
Ezekiel 31:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 3. Behold, the Assyrian was a ce...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold the Assyrian This, says Archbishop Secker, seems an admonitory comparison of Pharaoh to the late Assyrian monarch, applied to Pharaoh, Ezekiel 31:18 . By the Assyrian , compared here to a...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The King of Assyria's Greatness. B. C. 588. 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year,...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Assyrian kingdom and its kings were the greatest the world ever knew before thee, they had longest time of growth, through 1340 or 1360 years, from Belus who was Nimrod, or Belus Assyrius, to S...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Behold a cypress (‘assur', probably a variant of te'assur, and not therefore Assyria which would be out of place here), a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a woody shade and of great hei...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE DESTRUCTION OF ASSYRIA A TYPE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EGYPT. (Chap. 31) ( Ezekiel 31:1-18 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 31:1 . “In the eleventh year, in the third month.” Two months later than t...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 31:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 ma...
Ezekiel 31:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 30:20-26 , when Ezekiel was moved to expand his p...
Ezekiel 31:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Comparison Between Pharaoh's Power and that of Assyria
Ezekiel 31:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 4:10 ; Daniel 4:12 ; Daniel 4:20-23 ; Ezekiel 17:22 ; Ezekiel 17:3 ; Ezekiel 17:4 ; Ezekiel 31:6 ; Isaiah 10:33 ; Isaiah 10:34 ; Isaiah 37:24 ; Judges 9:15 ; Nahum 3:1-19 ; Zechar...
Ezekiel 31:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A cedar — Like the most goodly cedar for strength and beauty.

Ezekiel 31:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 31:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 31:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 31:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 31:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 31:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 31:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 31:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 31:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes