Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 31:8
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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 ( Ezekiel 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 ( Genesis 2:10-14 ). This cedar seemed to revive in itself all the glories of paradise, so that no tree there outtopped it. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"
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