God’s Word Translation
Ezekiel 31:7
7So the tree was big and beautiful with its long branches. Its roots reached down to many sources of water.
Ezekiel 31:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
- New International Version (NIV)It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.
- English Standard Version (ESV)It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters.
Context of Ezekiel 31:7
5That is why it grew taller than all the other trees in the field. Its branches became large and long because of so much water. 6All the birds made their nests in its branches. All the wild animals gave birth to their young under it. All the powerful nations lived in its shade. So the tree was big and beautiful with its long branches. Its roots reached down to many sources of water. 8The cedar trees in God’s garden couldn’t compare to it. The pine trees couldn’t equal its branches. The plane trees couldn’t measure up to its branches. All the trees in God’s garden couldn’t match its beauty. 9I was the one who made it beautiful with its many branches. This tree was the envy of all the trees in Eden, in God’s garden.
Read all of Ezekiel 31Ezekiel 31:7 word by word
וַיְּיִ֣ף בְּגָדְל֔וֹ בְּאֹ֖רֶךְ דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה שָׁרְשׁ֖וֹ אֶל־מַ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 31:7
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-9Verses 3-9 Fifth prophecy against Egypt: a warning to Pharaoh from the fate of the Assyrians. The Assyrian empire, after having been supreme in Asia for four centuries, had been overthrown by the united forces of the Babylonians and Medes, in the year of the battle of Carchemish (605 b.c.), which had broken the power of Egypt. This gives force to the warning to Egypt from Assyria‘s fall. Ezekiel 31:4 His plants - Rather, her plantation. The water…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-18Ezekiel asked the Egyptians to compare themselves to Assyria, which was like a great tree in Eden (Ezekiel 31:9). If that tree was cut down and sent to the underworld, how could Egypt, whose glory was less than Assyria's, believe it could survive?Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-18Not 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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