Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 31:18
Yet — Thou shalt be like them in thy fall. Thou shalt lie — As unclean, despised, loathsome and under a curse. This is — This will be their end.
Yet — Thou shalt be like them in thy fall. Thou shalt lie — As unclean, despised, loathsome and under a curse. This is — This will be their end.
Verse Ezekiel 31:18. _THIS_ IS _PHARAOH_] All that I have spoken in this allegory of the _lofty cedar_ refers to _Pharaoh_, king of Egypt, his princes, confederates, and people. _Calmet_ understands t...
Application to Pharaoh. THE UNCIRCUMCISED - The Egyptians, at least their nobles, were circumcised. Pharaoh should thus be dishonored with those whom the Egyptians themselves deemed unclean....
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...
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...
SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
The question implies that Pharaoh had no peers. Yet though incomparably greater than the other trees his fate shall be the same as theirs he shall be brought down with them to the nether parts of the...
THIS IS PHARAOH, &C.— This clause evidently proves the truth of the observation made on the third verse, that this allegory of the cedar refers not to the Assyrian, but to the destruction of Pharaoh k...
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...
C. The Descent of the Cedar 31:15-18 TRANSLATION (15) Thus says the Lord GOD: In the day he went down to Sheol I caused the deep to mourn and cover over him, and I held back her rivers, and the great...
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 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...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 31 AS ASSYRIA *FELL SO EGYPT WILL *FALL – EZEKIEL 31:1-18...
TO WHOM ART THOU THUS LIKE. — In this closing verse the whole chapter is brought to a point. Egypt, like Assyria in glory, shall be like her in experience of the judgments of God. On “uncircumcised” c...
אֶל ־מִ֨י דָמִ֥יתָ כָּ֛כָה בְּ כָבֹ֥וד וּ
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
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,...
To whom (i) 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 to the lower parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of...
_Famous king of Assyria, or of Egypt. --- Pharao. (Calmet) --- Mutato nomine de te_ Fabula narratur. (Horace, 1. Sat. 1.) --- Though Egypt be like the most potent kingdoms, it shall likewise fall. ...
Nothing can be more highly figurative than what is here said, and nothing more beautiful and exact in description. Who is this mighty Monarch of Assyria, or of Egypt, but the proud foes of Israel? and...
REFLECTIONS READER! it is hardly possible to read of the Lord's judgments of other nations, and of his tenderness to Israel, without being struck with astonishment at all we meet with concerning his d...
_THE DOOM OF EGYPT_ ‘This is Pharaoh.’ Ezekiel 31:18 I. TWO MONTHS LATER THAN THE PROPHECY OF Ezekiel 30:20, EZEKIEL SPOKE AGAIN THE DOOM OF EGYPT.—He tells the story of Assyria, comparing that mig...
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...
TO WHOM ART THOU THUS LIKE IN GLORY AND IN GREATNESS AMONG THE TREES OF EDEN?.... Among all the kings and potentates of the earth; pitch on whom you will, say which of them all, even the greatest of t...
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 t...
_To whom art thou thus like in glory?_ &c. To whom, among the great princes of the world, canst thou, O king of Egypt, be so fitly compared, with all thy glory and greatness, as to this king of Assyri...
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? among the various nations of the world, blessed by God, as they are, with many and great gifts of his goodness. YET SHALT...
The Lesson of Assyria's Fall...
10-18 The king of Egypt resembled the king of Assyria in his greatness: here we see he resembles him in his pride. And he shall resemble him in his fall. His own sin brings his ruin. None of our comf...
The mightiest, richest, and longest-lived kingdom I have represented, saith God, overthrown and destroyed; a kingdom thou canst not pretend to equal; and if not like this, what king or kingdom art tho...
Ezekiel 31:18 trees H6086 Eden H5731 likened H1819 (H8804) glory H3519 greatness H1433 down H3381 (H8717) trees...
“To whom are you thus like in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth. You will lie in the midst of the uncirc...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
Shall we turn now to Ezekiel, chapter 31. In Chapter s 29 and 30 of Ezekiel, he was prophesying concerning the judgment of God that was to come against the nation of Egypt, who was like a reed when Is...
1 Corinthians 10:14; 1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel 17:36; 2 Chronicles 28:22;...