New King James Version
Ezekiel 31:7
7‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters.
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 Living Translation (NLT)It was strong and beautiful, with wide-spreading branches, for its roots went deep into abundant water.
Context of Ezekiel 31:7
5‘Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field; Its boughs were multiplied, And its branches became long because of the abundance of water, As it sent them out. 6All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; And in its shadow all great nations made their home. ‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters. 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty. 9I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches, So that all the trees of Eden envied it, That were in the garden of God.’
Read all of Ezekiel 31Ezekiel 31:7 word by word
וַיְּיִ֣ף בְּגָדְל֔וֹ בְּאֹ֖רֶךְ דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה שָׁרְשׁ֖וֹ אֶל־מַ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
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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
In the dictionaries
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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