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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3

Assyrian. The ruin of this great empire (Calmet) might have admonished the king of Egypt of his frail condition. (Haydock) --- About thirty-eight years before (Calmet) Ninive had been taken, and its king (Sarac or Chinaladan) slain by his own general, Nabopolassar, and by Astyages, of Media. They divided the empire between them, and the father of Nabuchodonosor fixed his residence at Babylon. (Usher, the year of the world 3378.) --- Cedar. Septuagint, "cypress." --- Top; the king of Ninive. (Calmet) --- Egypt's monarch thought himself invincible; yet would fall like the Assyrians. (Worthington)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 31:3. _BEHOLD, THE ASSYRIAN_ WAS _A CEDAR_] Why is the _Assyrian_ introduced here, when the whole chapter concerns _Egypt_? Bp. _Lowth_ has shown that אשור ארז _ashshur erez_ should be...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 forces o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 31:1. Pharaoh's greatness is described in the first part of the chapter (Ezekiel 31:1). He is compared to the Assyrian, once so powerful and proud. The fall and desolation of the proud monarch...

  • 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 shelt...

  • 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 the subj...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Assyrian_was _a cedar_ It is evident that the Assyrian has nothing to do here; any comparison of Egypt to Assyria is without motive. Besides Ezekiel 31:3 is repeated in Ezekiel 31:10, and spoken...

  • 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 meaning...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    V. THE GREAT CEDAR TREE 31:1-18 This oracle follows the preceding one by some two months. The date according to the present calendar would be June 21, 587 B.C. (Ezekiel 31:1). In the first unit of thi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A. The Description of the Cedar 31:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2)...

  • 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 IN LEB...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    31:3 boughs. (a-27) Or 'clouds.' so vers. 10,14; ch. 19.11....

  • 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). It was the en...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ASSYRIAN] has evidently no connexion with the subject of the prophecy, which is Egypt. It has been supposed that the chapter describes the downfall of Assyria, as a type of that of Egypt, but it i...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֨ה אַשּׁ֜וּר אֶ֣רֶז בַּ † לְּבָנֹ֗ון יְפֵ֥ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:1; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power

  • 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,...

  • 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, a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29, 30, 31, AND 32. Chapter s 29-32 contain the judgment of Egypt. Egypt sought, in the self-will of man, to take the place which God had in fact given to Neb...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 and d...

  • 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 ceda...

  • 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 tal...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, the Assyrian, emperor and people, the entire nation, WAS A CEDAR IN LEBANON, distinguished for beauty and excellence, WITH FAIR BRANCHES, that is, beautiful and thick of foliage, AND WITH A SH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    COMPARISON BETWEEN PHARAOH'S POWER AND THAT OF ASSYRIA...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WITH FAIR BRANCHES: _ Heb._ fair of branches...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The falls of others, both into sin and ruin, warn us not to be secure or high-minded. The prophet is to show an instance of one whom the king of Egypt resembled in greatness, the Assyrian, compar...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 Sard...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 31:3 Assyria H804 cedar H730 Lebanon H3844 fine H3303 branches H6057 shaded H6751 (H8688) forest H2793 high...

  • 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 heig...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy against Pharaoh. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: It is rare to find a humble spirit in the midst of great advancement. God can easily expel those who think themselv...

  • 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._ The Vul...

  • 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 man t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 31:1 Ezekiel’s fifth oracle against Egypt dates to June 587 B.C., only a few weeks after the preceding unit. Here the prophet points to Assyria as an object lesson for Egypt. I...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE DESTRUCTION OF ASSYRIA A TYPE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EGYPT. (Chap. 31) (Ezekiel 31:1.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 31:1. “In the eleventh year, in the third month.” Two months later than the prophe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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, when Ezekiel was moved to expand his prediction of the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

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