Ezekiel 31:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

The cedars — The greatest kings. Garden of God — In the most fruitful gardens. Hide — Could not ever top, and shade him. The fir — trees — Lesser kings, and kingdoms, were not equal to his boughs. Nor any tree — All summed up, none like him in all the kingdoms of the world.

Ezekiel 31:8

8 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.