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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Ezekiel Chapter 31 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Ezekiel Chapter 31 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. Whom art thou like--The answer is, Thou art like the haughty king of Assyria; as he was overthrown by the Chaldeans, so shalt thou be by the same.
Ezekiel Chapter 31 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. He illustrates the pride and the consequent overthrow of the Assyrian, that Egypt may the better know what she must expect.
cedar in Lebanon--often eighty feet high, and the diameter of the space covered by its boughs still greater: the symmetry perfect. Compare the similar image
(Eze 17:3; Da 4:20-22).
with a shadowing shroud--with an overshadowing thicket.
top . . . among . . . thick boughs--rather [HENGSTENBERG], "among the clouds." But English Version agrees better with the Hebrew. The top, or topmost shoot, represents the king; the thick boughs, the large resources of the empire.
Ezekiel Chapter 31 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. waters . . . little rivers--the Tigris with its branches and "rivulets," or "conduits" for irrigation, the source of Assyria's fertility. "The deep" is the ever flowing water, never dry. Metaphorically, for Assyria's resources, as the "conduits" are her colonies.
Ezekiel Chapter 31 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. when he shot forth--because of the abundant moisture which nourished him in shooting forth. But see Margin.
Ezekiel Chapter 31 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. fowls . . . made . . . nests in . . . boughs--so
Eze 17:23; Da 4:12.
The gospel kingdom shall gather all under its covert, for their good and for the glory of God, which the world kingdoms did for evil and for self-aggrandizement
(Mt 13:32).
Ezekiel Chapter 31 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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
(Eze 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
(Ge 2:10-14).
This cedar seemed to revive in itself all the glories of paradise, so that no tree there outtopped it.
Ezekiel Chapter 31 9 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
9. I . . . made him--It was all due to My free grace.
Eze 31:1-18.
THE OVERTHROW OF EGYPT ILLUSTRATED BY THAT OF ASSYRIA.
Not that Egypt was, like Assyria, utterly to cease to be, but it was, like Assyria, to lose its prominence in the empire of the world.
1. third month--two months later than the prophecy delivered in
Eze 30:20.