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Ezekiel 31:9

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I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

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  1. Ezekiel 31:7

    Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

  2. Ezekiel 31:8

    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.

  3. Ezekiel 31:10

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

  4. Ezekiel 31:11

    I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

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