Ezekiel 31

Ezekiel 31

Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
Book Book of Ezekiel
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 26
Category Nevi'im

Ezekiel 31 is the thirty-first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Ezekiel, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets.[1] In the New King James Version, this chapter is sub-titled "Egypt Cut Down Like a Great Tree".[2]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 2

"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:
‘Whom are you like in your greatness?’" (NKJV)[3]

Verse 3

Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
With fine branches that shaded the forest,
And of high stature;
And its top was among the thick boughs. (NKJV)[7]

Assyria was a superpower that fell into the hand of the Babylonians (Nahum 3:8-10), and soon Egypt will fall likewise.[8]

See also

Notes and references

  1. Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  2. Ezekiel 31:1-18: NKJV
  3. Ezekiel 31:2
  4. Bromiley 1995, p. 574.
  5. Brown, 1994 & "פַּרְעֹה".
  6. Gesenius, 1979 & "פַּרְעֹה".
  7. Ezekiel 31:3
  8. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1224-1225 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810

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