Ezekiel 31:18

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To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.

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Assyria was the powerful Mesopotamian empire, portrayed earlier in the chapter as a lofty cedar from Lebanon, the mountain region famed for its great forests. Egypt, likewise proud and powerful along the Nile, is warned that it will share Assyria’s humbling descent to the grave.

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Ezekiel 31:18 mentions Assyria, Egypt and Lebanon.

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