Ezekiel 31:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Psalm 80:10

The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

Song of Solomon 5:15

His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.

Ezekiel 28:13

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, carnelian, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and wrought in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.

Ezekiel 31:16

I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, will be comforted in the nether world.

Ezekiel 31:18

Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether world; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 31:3

Behold, I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.

Ezekiel 31:7

It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.

Revelation 2:7

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’