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**the eleventh year** . See note on [Ezekiel 30:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/30/20) , and p. 1105. the third month. About two months before the fall of Jerusalem.
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 .

**Son of man** . See note on [Ezekiel 2:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/1) .

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos* . App-6
**the Assyrian.** Ginsburg thinks this should read *teashshur* (= a box = tree) instead of ' *ashshur* (= an Assyrian). There is no article; and Egypt is the subject here, not Assyria. See note on [Ezekiel 27:6](../../../kjv/ezekiel/27/6) , and compare [Isaiah 41:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/19) ; [Isaiah 60:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/13) . The subject is the proud exaltation of Egypt, which is likened to a box or cypress, exalting itself into a cedar of Lebanon.
**shroud** = foliage.

**waters . . . deep** : i.e. the water = ways, and the Nile. Compare [Ezekiel 31:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/31/15) .

**branches.** Hebrew text reads "branch" (singular); but margin, with some codices and four early printed editions, road "branches" (plural) Occurs only in Ezekiel.

**boughs** = arms. Occurs only here and in 31:8.

**the garden of God.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 2:8](../../../kjv/genesis/2/8) ). God. Hebrew. *Elohim* . App-4 .

**Eden.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 2](../../../kjv/genesis/2) ). Compare [Ezekiel 28:13](../../../kjv/ezekiel/28/13) . App-92 .

**thus smith,** he. See note on [Ezekiel 44:9](../../../kjv/ezekiel/44/9) .
**the Lord God.** Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See note on [Ezekiel 2:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/4) .
**thou** . Pharaoh,
**he** . Ashur.

**heathen** = nations.
**for.** Many codices, with five early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "according to", as our text does. Other codices, with four early printed editions and Aramaean, read "in".
**wickedness** = lawlessness. Hebrew. *rasha.* App-44 .

**strangers** = foreigners.
**rivers** = torrents. Hebrew ' *aphikim* . See note on" channels", [2 Samuel 22:16](../../../kjv/2-samuel/22/16) .

**all.** All the trees. So in [Ezekiel 31:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/31/16) .
**children** = sons.
**men.** Hebrew ' *adam* . App-14 .

**the grave.** Hebrew. *Sheol* . App-35 .

**I east gim down** = I caused tint to descend.
**hell** = Sheol. Same word as "the grave" in [Ezekiel 31:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/31/15) . the pit. Hebrew. *bor* . Showing the sense in which Sheol is used in [Ezekiel 31:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/31/15) and [Ezekiel 31:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/31/16) . See notes on "well", [Genesis 21:19](../../../kjv/genesis/21/19) ; and "pit", [Isaiah 14:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/19) .

**and they that were his arm.** Septuagint and Syriac rend "and his seed".

**saith the Lord GOD** = [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.

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