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; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
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Gill's Exposition
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him,.... That is, could not rise so high as this cedar, and overtop him, and obscure his glory; even those that were most excellent, which grew in Eden,…
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…
Adam Clarke
The cedars in the garden of God - Egypt was one of the most eminent and affluent of all the neighboring nations.
This prophecy bears date the month before Jerusalem was taken, as that in the close of the foregoing chapter about four months before. When God's people were in the depth of their distress, it would…
Cambridge Bible
could not hide him Probably: equal him, compare with him (cf. the common particle "over against" or "alongside of," Eze 1:20; Eze 48:13, &c.).
chesnut trees Probably: plane trees, Gen 30:37; cf. Psa…
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