Pharaoh to Be Slain
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Now it came to pass in the a eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:
b 'Whom are you like in your greatness?
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c 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.
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d The waters made it grow;
Underground waters gave it height,
With their rivers running around the place where it was planted,
And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field.
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'Therefore e its height was exalted above all the trees of the field;
Its boughs were multiplied,
And its branches became long because of the abundance of water,
As it sent them out.
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All the f birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs;
Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young;
And in its shadow all great nations made their home.
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'Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches,
Because its roots reached to abundant waters.
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The cedars in the g garden of God could not hide it;
The fir trees were not like its boughs,
And the chestnut trees were not like its branches;
No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.
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I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,
So that all the trees of Eden envied it,
That were in the garden of God.'
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"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick boughs, and h its heart was lifted up in its height,
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'therefore I will deliver it into the hand of the i mighty one of the nations, and he shall surely deal with it; I have driven it out for its wickedness.
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'And aliens, j the most terrible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen k on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie l broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it.
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'On m its ruin will remain all the birds of the heavens,
And all the beasts of the field will come to its branches -
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'So that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height, nor set their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree which drinks water may ever be high enough to reach up to them.
'For n they have all been delivered to death,
o To the depths of the earth,
Among the children of men who go down to the Pit.'
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"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'In the day when it p went down to hell, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were held back. I caused Lebanon to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.
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'I made the nations q shake at the sound of its fall, when I r cast it down to hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and s all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, t were comforted in the depths of the earth.
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'They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who were its strong arm u dwelt in its shadows among the nations.
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v 'To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened in glory and greatness? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth; w you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,' says the Lord GOD."
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Jeremiah 52:5
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Jeremiah 52:6
By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Ezekiel 30:20
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
Ezekiel 32:1
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
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Ezekiel 31:18
'To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened in glory and greatness? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,' says the Lord GOD."
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Isaiah 10:33
Behold, the Lord, The LORD of hosts, Will lop o...
Isaiah 10:34
He will cut down the thickets of the forest wit...
Ezekiel 17:3
And say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "A great eagl...
Ezekiel 17:4
He cropped off its topmost young twig And carri...
Ezekiel 17:22
Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will take also one o...
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations shake at the sound of its fa...
Daniel 4:10
These were the visions of my head while on my b...
Daniel 4:20 - 23
The tree that you saw, which grew and became st...
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Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
Ezekiel 29:3 - 9
"Speak, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, Who has said, 'My River is my own; I have made it for myself.'
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Daniel 4:11
The tree grew and became strong; Its height reached to the heavens, And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth.
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Ezekiel 17:23
On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it; and it will bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. Under it will dwell birds of every sort; in the shadow of its branches they will dwell.
Ezekiel 31:13
On its ruin will remain all the birds of the heavens, And all the beasts of the field will come to its branches -
Daniel 4:12
Its leaves were lovely, Its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, The birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, And all flesh was fed from it.
Daniel 4:21
Whose leaves were lovely and its fruit abundant, in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the birds of the heaven had their home -
Matthew 13:32
"which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."
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Genesis 2:8
The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden,...
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground the LORD God made every t...
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain o...
Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort...
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every prec...
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations shake at the sound of its fa...
Ezekiel 31:18
'To which of the trees in Eden will you then be...
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2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah did not repay according to the fav...
Isaiah 10:12
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord ...
Isaiah 14:13
For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend...
Isaiah 14:14
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, ...
Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty...
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spiri...
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Ezekiel 30:10
Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Daniel 5:18
O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor.
Daniel 5:19
And because of the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down.
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Ezekiel 28:7
Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you, The most terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, And defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 30:11
He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, Shall be brought to destroy the land; They shall draw their swords against Egypt, And fill the land with the slain.
Ezekiel 32:12
By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall. 'They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be destroyed.
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Ezekiel 32:5
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valleys with your carcass.
Ezekiel 35:8
And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.
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Ezekiel 30:24
I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.
Ezekiel 30:25
Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
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Isaiah 18:6
They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth; The birds of prey will summer on them, And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
Ezekiel 32:4
Then I will leave you on the land; I will cast you out on the open fields, And cause to settle on you all the birds of the heavens. And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.
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Psalms 82:7
But you shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.
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Ezekiel 32:18
Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, And cast them down to the depths of the earth, Her and the daughters of the famous nations, With those who go down to the Pit:
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Ezekiel 32:22
Assyria is there, and all her company, With their graves all around her, All of them slain, fallen by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:23
Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit, And her company is all around her grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who caused terror in the land of the living.
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Ezekiel 26:15
Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: 'Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?
Haggai 2:7
And I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,' says the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 14:15
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
Ezekiel 32:18
Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, And cast them down to the depths of the earth, Her and the daughters of the famous nations, With those who go down to the Pit:
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Isaiah 14:8
Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.
Habakkuk 2:17
For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid, Because of men's blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.
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Ezekiel 32:31
Pharaoh will see them And be comforted over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, Slain by the sword," Says the Lord GOD.
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Lamentations 4:20
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, "Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.
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Ezekiel 32:19
'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.'
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Jeremiah 9:25
Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised -
Jeremiah 9:26
"Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart."
Ezekiel 28:10
You shall die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of aliens; For I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.'
Ezekiel 32:19
'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.'
Ezekiel 32:21
The strong among the mighty Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell With those who help him: 'They have gone down, They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
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