Ezekiel 31:8-10

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‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide or rival it;
The cypress trees did not have boughs like it,
And the ^[a]plane trees did not have branches like it.
No tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty.
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‘I made it beautiful with the great mass of its branches,
So that all the trees of ^[b]Eden which were in the garden of God were jealous of it (Assyria).

¹⁰‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the thick boughs and the clouds, and its heart is proud of its height,^(A)

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 31:8 This enormous tree may grow to a height of a hundred feet. The diameter of its base may vary from six to ten feet.
Ezekiel 31:9 The traditional site of Eden was within the general area of the Assyrian Empire. However, this does not imply that Assyria was in the garden of God described in Gen 2:8.