Ezekiel 31:8
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The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.

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Ezekiel 28:13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Genesis 2:8 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Psalm 80:10 The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

Isaiah 51:3 The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.

nor any

Psalm 37:35 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.

Isaiah 10:7-14 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. . . .

Isaiah 36:4-18 And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou trustest? . . .

Isaiah 37:11-13 Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be delivered? . . .

Context
Egypt will Fall Like Assyria
7And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters. 8The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.9For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.…
Cross References
Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God.

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:9
And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Psalm 80:10
The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

Songs 5:15
His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.

Isaiah 51:3
The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.

Ezekiel 31:7
And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.

Ezekiel 31:16
I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:18
To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Lexicon
The cedars
אֲרָזִ֣ים (’ă·rā·zîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 730: A cedar tree

in the garden
בְּגַן־ (bə·ḡan-)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1588: An enclosure, garden

of God
אֱלֹהִים֒ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

could not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

rival it;
עֲמָמֻהוּ֮ (‘ă·mā·mu·hū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6004: To associate, to overshadow

the pine trees
בְּרוֹשִׁ֗ים (bə·rō·wō·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1265: A cypress, tree, a lance, a musical instrument

could not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

compare
דָמוּ֙ (ḏā·mū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1819: To compare, to resemble, liken, consider

with
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

its branches,
סְעַפֹּתָ֔יו (sə·‘ap·pō·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5589: A bough, branch

nor
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

the plane trees
וְעַרְמֹנִ֥ים (wə·‘ar·mō·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6196: The plane tree

match
הָי֖וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

its boughs.
כְּפֹֽארֹתָ֑יו (kə·p̄ō·rō·ṯāw)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6288: Ornamentation, foliage, as bright green

No
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

tree
עֵץ֙ (‘êṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6086: Tree, trees, wood

in the garden
בְּגַן־ (bə·ḡan-)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1588: An enclosure, garden

of God
אֱלֹהִ֔ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

could compare
דָמָ֥ה (ḏā·māh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1819: To compare, to resemble, liken, consider

with
אֵלָ֖יו (’ê·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

its beauty.
בְּיָפְיֽוֹ׃ (bə·yā·p̄ə·yōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3308: Beauty


Additional Translations
The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the pine trees could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.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 to him in his beauty.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

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 unto him in his beauty.

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; not any tree in the garden of God was like to him in his beauty.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,
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