Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
cedars	אֲרָזִ֣ים 'a.ra.Zim	H730	a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
garden	בְּגַן be.gan-	H1588	a garden (as fenced) · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct
God	אֱלֹהִים֒ 'E.lo.Him	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural absolute
hide	עֲמָמֻהוּ֮ 'a.ma.mu.Hu	H6004	to associate · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
trees	בְּרוֹשִׁ֗ים be.ro.Shim	H1265	a cypress (?) tree · noun, common masculine plural absolute
like	דָמוּ֙ da.Mu	H1819	to compare · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
boughs	סְעַפֹּתָ֔יו se.'a.po.Tav	H5589	a twig · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
trees	וְעַרְמֹנִ֥ים ve.'ar.mo.Nim	H6196	the plane tree (from its smooth and shed bark) · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute
branches	כְּפֹֽארֹתָ֑יו ke.fo.ro.Tav	H6288	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
tree	עֵץ֙ 'etz	H6086	a tree (from its firmness) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
garden	בְּגַן be.gan-	H1588	a garden (as fenced) · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct
God	אֱלֹהִ֔ים 'E.lo.Him	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural absolute
like	דָמָ֥ה da.Mah	H1819	to compare · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
beauty	בְּיָפְיֽוֹ be.ya.fe.Yo	H3308	beauty · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, a…
Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Go…
Psalms 80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the ga…
Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Ezekiel 31:16 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…
Ezekiel 31:18 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…
Psalms 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:1-9

This prophecy bears date the month before Jerusalem was taken, as that in the close of the foregoing chapter about four months before. When God's people were in the depth of their distress, it would be some comfort to them, as it would serve likewise for a check to the pride and malice of their neighbours, that insulted over them, to be told from heaven that the cup was going round, even the cup of trembling, that it would shortly be taken out of the hands of God's people and put into the hands of those that hated them, Isa 51:22, Isa 51:23. In this prophecy, I. The prophet is directed to put Pharaoh upon searching the records for a case parallel to his own (Eze 31:2): Speak to Pharaoh and t…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 31:8

cedars . . . could not hide him--could not outtop him. No other king eclipsed him. were not like--were not comparable to. garden of God--As in the case of Tyre (Eze 28:13), the imagery, that is applied to the Assyrian king, is taken from Eden; peculiarly appropriate, as Eden was watered by rivers that afterwards watered Assyria (Gen 2:10-14). This cedar seemed to revive in itself all the glories of paradise, so that no tree there outtopped it.

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God - Egypt was one of the most eminent and affluent of all the neighboring nations.

John Gill on Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him,.... That is, could not rise so high as this cedar, and overtop him, and obscure his glory; even those that were most excellent, which grew in Eden, near to which Babylon stood, and where a mighty king dwelt. The sense is, that the greatest kings and potentates in the whole world, which is like a garden planted by the Lord, were not equal to the king of Assyria, and much less exceeded him in grandeur, wealth, and power: the fir trees were not like his boughs: lesser kings and princes, comparable to fir trees for the beauty, regularity, order, and flourishing condition of their kingdoms; yet these were but petty states, and not to be compare…

Dictionary and topics

Cedar — (Heb. e’rez, Gr. kedros, Lat. cedrus), a tree very frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was stately (Ezek. 31:3-5), long-branched (Ps. 80:10; 92:12; Ezek. 31:6-9), odoriferous (Cant. 4:11; Hos.…
Chestnut tree — (Heb. ’armon; i.e., “naked”), mentioned in connection with Jacob’s artifice regarding the cattle (Gen. 30:37). It is one of the trees of which, because of its strength and beauty, the Assyrian empire…
Ezekiel, Book of — Consists mainly of three groups of prophecies. After an account of his call to the prophetical office (1-3:21), Ezekiel (1) utters words of denunciation against the Jews (3:22-24), warning them of…
Plane tree — Heb. ‘armon (Gen. 30:37; Ezek. 31:8), rendered “chesnut” in the Authorized Version, but correctly “plane tree” in the Revised Version and the LXX. This tree is frequently found in Palestine, both on…
Assyria · The greatness, extent, duration, and fall, illustrated — The greatness, extent, duration, and fall, illustrated
Chestnut Tree · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Trees · Mentioned in scripture: Chestnut — Mentioned in scripture: Chestnut

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 31:8

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Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 31:8

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 31:8

John Gill on Ezekiel 31:8

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Ezekiel 31:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 31:8

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 31:8

John Gill on Ezekiel 31:8

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 31:1-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 31:6

Rashi on Ezekiel 31:8