Ezekiel 31:9 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 31:9

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.

KJV

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ASV

I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

WEB

I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’

YLT

Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that are in the garden of God.

DBT

I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden ofGod, envied him.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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27 verses on the floor

2 Corinthians 12:4
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Daniel 2:37–38
Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Psalms 75:6–7
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

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His large dominions were well managed, like a spreading tree that is kept in shape and good order by the skill of the gardener, so as to be very beautiful to the eye. His government was as amiable in the eyes of wise men as it was admirable in the eyes of all men.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, It is the unhappiness of those who in any thing excel others that thereby they make themselves the objects of envy; and who can stand before envy? He was serviceable, as far as a standing growing cedar could be, and that was only by his shadow (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(2.) He seemed to have a good bottom. This cedar was not like the heath in the desert, made to inhabit the parched places ( Jer. xvii. 6 ); it was not a root in a dry ground, Isa. liii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 31:9ISA 51:3 JOE 2:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 31:9GEN 13:10 ISA 51:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 31:9EZE 28:13 EZE 28:15
EZE 31:9ISA 51:3 ISA 49:13
EZE 31:9GEN 13:10 DEU 34:3
EZE 31:9ISA 51:3 ISA 52:9
EZE 31:9EZE 28:13 EZE 27:16
EZE 31:9EZE 28:13 GEN 2:8

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