I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall,.... As, when a large cedar was cut down and fell in Lebanon, the noise of it was heard at a distance; so when this mighty monarch and monarchy…
Effect of Assyria’s fall. Eze 31:15 I covered the deep - To cover with sack-cloth was an expression of mourning Eze 27:31. The deep, the source of Assyria’s prosperity Eze 31:4, was made to mourn,…
We have seen the king of Egypt resembling the king of Assyria in pomp, and power, and prosperity, how like he was to him in his greatness; now here we see,
I. How he does likewise resemble him in his…
Cambridge Bible
at the sound of his fall See on Eze 26:15; cf. Eze 32:10.
to hell … into the pit to Sheòl with them that are gone down to the pit, ch. Eze 32:18; Isa 14:15. The nations living on the earth shake with…
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