8<\/strong>. could not hide him<\/em> ] Probably: equal him<\/strong>, compare with him (cf. the common particle “over against” or “alongside of,” Eze 1:20<\/span>, Eze 48:13<\/span>, &c.).<\/p>\n chesnut trees<\/em> ] Probably: plane<\/strong> trees, Gen 30:37<\/span>; cf. Psa 104:16<\/span>; Num 24:6<\/span>. The trees in the garden of God are naturally the most lofty.<\/p>\n Verse 8<\/span>. The cedars in the garden of God<\/B><\/I>] Egypt was one of the most eminent and affluent of all the neighbouring nations.<\/P> <\/p>\n The cedars; <\/B>kings, the greatest and most magnificent. <\/P> In the garden of God; <\/B>either in the most fruitful gardens, or in Judah and Israel; not David, not Solomon, Jehoshaphat, or Hezekiah, could top and shade him. <\/P> The fir trees; <\/B>a meaner sort of trees, emblem of lesser kings and kingdoms; these were but like his boughs, though they grow to great height and bulk. The chesnut trees<\/I>; the same in another allusion. Kings, like chesnut trees, great when by themselves, yet, compared with this Assyrian, were but as branches of his boughs; all which see in Isaiahs words, Eze 10:7<\/span>,8<\/span>. There was some truth, though more pride, in this speech of the Assyrian, which the prophet reports. <\/P> Nor any tree in the garden of God; <\/B>all summed up, none like him in all the kingdoms of the world. <\/P> <\/p>\n 8. cedars . . . could not hidehim<\/B>could not outtop him. No other king eclipsed him. <\/P> were not like<\/B>were notcomparable to. <\/P> garden of God<\/B>As in thecase of Tyre (Eze 28:13<\/span>), theimagery, that is applied to the Assyrian king, is taken from Eden;peculiarly appropriate, as Eden was watered by rivers that afterwardswatered Assyria (Ge 2:10-14<\/span>).This cedar seemed to revive in itself all the glories of paradise, sothat no tree there outtopped it.<\/P><\/p>\n The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him<\/strong>,…. That is, could not rise so high as this cedar, and overtop him, and obscure his glory; even those that were most excellent, which grew in Eden, near to which Babylon stood, and where a mighty king dwelt. The sense is, that the greatest kings and potentates in the whole world, which is like a garden planted by the Lord, were not equal to the king of Assyria, and much less exceeded him in grandeur, wealth, and power:<\/p>\n the fir trees were not like his boughs<\/strong>: lesser kings and princes, comparable to fir trees for the beauty, regularity, order, and flourishing condition of their kingdoms; yet these were but petty states, and not to be compared even with the provinces of the king of Assyria:<\/p>\n and the chesnut trees were not like his branches<\/strong>; lesser states still: which, though well set, and well spread, and full of people, yet not answerable to some countries that were in the provinces that belonged to the Assyrian empire:<\/p>\n not any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty<\/strong>; no king, prince, or potentate whatever in the whole world, was to be compared to him for royal majesty and greatness. The Targum is,<\/p>\n “mighty kings could not prevail against him, because of the strength of his power, which he had from the Lord; rulers could not stand before his army, and mighty men could not prevail against his auxiliaries, because of the strength of power he had from the Lord; there is none like to him in his strength.”<\/p>\n (8) The garden of God.<\/strong>See Eze. 31:9<\/span>; Eze. 31:16<\/span>; Eze. 31:18<\/span>; also Eze. 28:13<\/span>. This is not a representation of Assyria as being in the garden of God, as in the case of Tyre in Eze. 28:13<\/span>, but only a further expression of its greatness by a comparison of the tree representing it with the trees of Paradise. Yet this comparison may have been suggested by the fact that the traditionary site of Eden was within the bounds of the Assyrian Empire. Fir trees<\/em> are generally understood to be cypresses, and chestnut<\/em> to be plane-trees.<\/p>\n 8, 9<\/strong>. <\/strong> This was the greatest of all trees, its twigs being greater than fir trees (or, cypress; <\/em> compare Eze 27:5<\/span>), and its great branches reaching farther than the chestnut (or, “plane,” LXX.; Gen 30:37<\/span>). For garden of God <\/strong> and Eden<\/strong>, see Eze 28:13<\/span>.<\/p>\n “The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him, the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the plane trees were not as his branches. Nor was any tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty. I 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.”<\/p>\n This may be hyperbole based on ideas about the trees in Eden, to stress his supreme greatness, or it may be that Lebanon was popularly known as ‘the garden of the gods’ because of its splendid trees (and thus ‘the garden of Eden’ to Israel), and was therefore seen as the measure by which all trees should be measured. Either way Pharaoh and Egypt are seen as exalted above them all because of their great strength, fruitfulness and power, and it was by the hand of Yahweh (‘I made him fair’). As over everything else Yahweh was over this. But being so had given them a great responsibility and in this they had failed.<\/p>\n There may here be a comparison with Tyre. That too had claimed great beauty and to be connected to the garden of the gods (chapter 28). That too had many offshoots. But if so here God is declaring that even great Tyre could not compare with Egypt, none in Tyre could compare with the Egyptians.<\/p>\n Eze 31:8<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>The cedars in the garden of God<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Some render this, The cedars in the garden of God were not higher than he. <\/em>The expression seems only to mean the highest trees. <\/em>Instead of, I have made him fair, <\/em>Eze 31:9<\/span> we may read, I had, <\/em>&c. <\/p>\n Eze 31:8 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.<\/p>\n Ver. 8. The cedars in the garden of God.<\/strong> ] No kingdom in the world was comparable to the Assyrian for thirteen hundred years together.<\/p>\n the garden of God. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen 2:8). God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. <\/p>\n cedars: Eze 28:13, Gen 2:8, Gen 13:10, Psa 80:10, Isa 51:3 <\/p>\n nor any: Psa 37:35, Isa 10:7-14, Isa 36:4-18, Isa 37:11-13 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 2:9 – every Gen 30:37 – chestnut tree Joe 2:3 – the land<\/p>\n Eze 31:8. The king of Assyria is still being compared to a tree that excels all others. Carrying out this imagery it ts said that the trees in the garden of God (garden of Eden) could not hide (over-shadow”-Strong) him. This comparison is very appropriate, for the trees in that first garden are spoken of as very desirable (Genesis 2; Genesis 9). Other trees are mentioned also as being inferior to this one of Assyria. <\/p>\n 31:8 The cedars in the garden {d} of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; not any tree in the garden of God was like him in his beauty.<\/p>\n (d) Signifying that there was no greater power in the world than his was.<\/p>\n The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. 8. could not hide him ] Probably: equal him, compare with him … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 31:8”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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