Ezekiel 31:8

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Summary

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.

Cedars

Isaiah 51:3

Nor any

Bible References

Cedars

You were in Eden, God's garden. You were covered with every kind of precious stone: red quartz, topaz, crystal, beryl, jade, onyx, gray quartz, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your settings and your sockets were made of gold when you were created.

Now Jehovah God planted a garden in the east, in Eden. He put the man he had formed there.

Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Its shade covered the mountains. Its branches covered the mighty cedars.

Jehovah will surely comfort Zion. He will look with compassion on all her ruins. He will make her deserts like Eden and her wastelands like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her along with thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

Nor any

I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations.

He said to them: Tell Hezekiah, This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: 'What makes you so confident?

You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries. He destroyed them completely. And will you be delivered?