9<\/strong>. have made him fair<\/em> ] I made<\/strong> him fair. But the idea of his beauty being conferred by God is foreign to the connexion. His stateliness was due to his great waters, beside which he was planted; it was the fruit of nature<\/em>, which in this passage is rather contrasted with God. The words are wanting in LXX., and may be a marginal gloss on “beauty,” which a reader attributed to God. If the words be omitted, the last clause of Eze 31:8<\/em><\/span> should probably be closely connected with Eze 31:9<\/em><\/span>: “and no tree in the garden of God was like unto him, because of (in) the multitude of his branches.”<\/p>\n I have made him fair; <\/B>all this greatness, wealth, and glory I have given him. <\/P> By the multitude of his branches; <\/B>the numbers of his provinces, and multitude of his subjects, high and low, great and small. <\/P> Envied him; <\/B>either did when they saw his greatness, or would have envied if they had seen it; or if there may be a seeming justifiableness in wondering at anothers glory, and wishing it our own, here it might be found. <\/P> <\/p>\n 9. I . . . made him<\/B>It was alldue to My<\/I> free grace.<\/P><\/p>\n I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches<\/strong>,…. Or provinces, the extensiveness of his dominions: all his power and strength, riches and wealth, grandeur and glory, and the vast dominions he was possessed of, were all from the Lord; as whatever kings have are, though they are too apt to ascribe it to themselves; but all are from him, by whom kings reign:<\/p>\n so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him<\/strong>; all the kings of the earth, though they dared not openly speak against him, or oppose him; yet they inwardly grieved at and secretly grudged his grandeur and majesty, superior to theirs, and wished themselves in his stead; and could gladly have done anything, were it in their power, to eclipse his glory, and bring him lower. This is the case of all that are in any eminence, or are conspicuous to others, or in any exalted station above others, be it what it will; whether they have superior gifts and endowments of mind; or greater riches, and larger possessions; or are in high places of honour, trust, and profit. The Targum is,<\/p>\n “I have made him beautiful by the multitude of his mighty ones; and all the kings of the east trembled before him, because of the strength of his power, which he had from the Lord.”<\/p>\n Eze 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.<\/p>\n Ver. 9. So that all the trees of Eden envied him.] Summa petit livor.<\/em> The tallest trees are weakest in the tops, and envy always aimeth at the highest.<\/p>\n Eden. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen 2). Compare Eze 28:13. App-92. <\/p>\n made: Eze 16:14, Exo 9:16, Psa 75:6, Psa 75:7, Dan 2:21, Dan 2:37, Dan 2:38, Dan 4:22-25, Dan 5:20-23 <\/p>\n all the trees: Eze 17:22, Eze 17:24, Jdg 9:8-20, Psa 96:12, Psa 96:13, Isa 55:12, Zec 11:2 <\/p>\n envied: Gen 26:14, Gen 37:11, 1Sa 18:15, Pro 27:4, Ecc 4:4, Jam 4:5, Jam 4:6 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 2:8 – a garden Gen 2:9 – every Jer 51:53 – mount Eze 28:13 – in Eden Eze 31:16 – and all Eze 31:18 – with the Joe 2:3 – the land 2Co 12:4 – paradise<\/p>\n Eze 31:9. I have made him fair. It was the will of God that the king of Assyria (likewise the king of Egypt) should have great power (See Dan 2:37; Dan 4:17; Dan 5:18; Rom 13:1) provided he would use it right. Trees . . . envied him will be understood to be figurattve and is another way of stating the superiority of Assyria (and Egypt for whose sake the comparison is being made) over other kingdoms.<\/p>\n 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. 9. have made him fair ] I made him fair. But the idea of his beauty being conferred by God is foreign to the connexion. 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