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, Ver. 1. _In the third month._] Two months after the former prophecy, and a month before the city was taken.... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Ver. 2. _Speak unto Pharaoh._] Unto Pharaohhophra. Eze 29:2 Say unto him (though it will be to small purpose), "Hear, and give ear, be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken it." Jer 13:15 _ Whom... [ Continue Reading ]
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 cedar._] See Ezekiel 17:3; Eze 17:22-23 Daniel 4:10,11. _See Trapp on "_ Eze 17:3 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ E... [ Continue Reading ]
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. Ver. 4. _The waters made him great._] He had a confluence of all prosperities. Watered he was, _non aquis sed abyssis; est autem aby... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. Ver. 5. _And his boughs were multiplied._] _Amplissima ludit copia verborum._ _a_ a Oecolamp.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Ver. 6. _All the fowls._] See Daniel 4:12 .... [ Continue Reading ]
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_] Once again he setteth forth with how great power and glory God had adorned this first monarchy.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Ver. 8. _The cedars in the garden of God._] No kingdom in the world was comparable to the... [ Continue Reading ]
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God, envied him. Ver. 9. So that all the trees of Eden … envied him.] _Summa petit livor._ The tallest trees are weakest in the tops, and envy always aimeth at the highest.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; Ver. 10. _Because thou hast lifted up thyself._] Here he comes to describe _casum et cladem,_ the downfall and destruction... [ Continue Reading ]
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. Ver. 11. _I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one._] Of Merodach Baladan, who of governor had made himself King of Babylon;... [ Continue Reading ]
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. Ver. 12. _An... [ Continue Reading ]
_Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:_ Ver. 13. _Upon his ruin shall all the fowls._] His dead body shall want decent burial, as afterward did great Alexander's, great Pompey's, our William the Conqueror's, Richard III's... [ Continue Reading ]
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the c... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. Ver. 15. _I restrained th... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. Ver. 16. _I made the nations shake at the sou... [ Continue Reading ]
They also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. Ver. 17. _They also went down into hell with him._] It was wont to be said that hell was paved with kings' crests and shavelings'... [ Continue Reading ]
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 nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, sa... [ Continue Reading ]