Daniel 4:14; Ezekiel 17:6; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 31:12; Ezekiel 31:9; John 3:23
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...
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...
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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 branc...
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-powe...
The fifth prophecy was directed against the greatness of Pharaoh. Ezekiel was commanded to address himself to Pharaoh and his multitudes. This he did...
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...
Thus was he fair in his greatness ,.... Amiable, lovely, delightful to look upon in the greatness of his majesty, in his royal glory and dignity:...
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. Ver. 7. Thus was he fair in his greatness ] On...
Behold the Assyrian This, says Archbishop Secker, seems an admonitory comparison of Pharaoh to the late Assyrian monarch, applied to Pharaoh, Ezek...
The King of Assyria's Greatness. B. C. 588....
Fair; beautiful, lovely, and desirable. In his greatness; not exerted in tyranny and oppression, but exercised in the royal art of imitating the gr...
“Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the forest, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long by reason of many w...
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...
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 ;...
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 sto...
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...
Comparison Between Pharaoh's Power and that of Assyria
Thus was he fair in his greatness, on count of the greatness which had been given him, in the length of his branches, because the tributary states...
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.