Ezekiel 31:9 Cross References
Ezekiel 31:9
9: Because of the magnificence I gave this tree, it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden, the garden of God.
Ezekiel 28:13
- You were in Eden, the garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone--red carnelian, chrysolite, white moonstone, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald--all beautifully crafted for you and set in the finest gold. They were given to you on the day you were created.
Isaiah 51:3
- The LORD will comfort Israel again and make her deserts blossom. Her barren wilderness will become as beautiful as Eden--the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found there. Lovely songs of thanksgiving will fill the air.
Genesis 13:10
- Lot took a long look at the fertile plains of the Jordan Valley in the direction of Zoar. The whole area was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the LORD or the beautiful land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Proverbs 27:4
- Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but who can survive the destructiveness of jealousy?
1 Samuel 18:15
- When Saul recognized this, he became even more afraid of him.
Genesis 26:14
- He acquired large flocks of sheep and goats, great herds of cattle, and many servants. Soon the Philistines became jealous of him,
Psalms 96:12
- Let the fields and their crops burst forth with joy! Let the trees of the forest rustle with praise
- before the LORD! For the LORD is coming! He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and all the nations with his truth.
Zechariah 11:2
- Weep, you cypress trees, for all the ruined cedars; the tallest and most beautiful of them are fallen. Weep, you oaks of Bashan, as you watch the thickest forests being felled.
Isaiah 55:12
- You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands!
Ezekiel 31:16
- I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of its fall, for I sent it down to the grave with all the others like it. And all the other proud trees of Eden, the most beautiful and the best of Lebanon, the ones whose roots went deep into the water, were relieved to find it there with them in the pit.
Daniel 2:21
- He determines the course of world events; he removes kings and sets others on the throne. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars.
Ezekiel 16:14
- Your fame soon spread throughout the world on account of your beauty, because the splendor I bestowed on you perfected your beauty, says the Sovereign LORD.
Daniel 4:22
- That tree, Your Majesty, is you. For you have grown strong and great; your greatness reaches up to heaven, and your rule to the ends of the earth.
- " `Then you saw a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, "Cut down the tree and destroy it. But leave the stump and the roots in the ground, bound with a band of iron and bronze and surrounded by tender grass. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven. Let him eat grass with the animals of the field for seven periods of time."
- " `This is what the dream means, Your Majesty, and what the Most High has declared will happen to you.
- You will be driven from human society, and you will live in the fields with the wild animals. You will eat grass like a cow, and you will be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.
Exodus 9:16
- But I have let you live for this reason--that you might see my power and that my fame might spread throughout the earth.
Ezekiel 31:18
- "O Egypt, to which of the trees of Eden will you compare your strength and glory? You, too, will be brought down to the pit with all these other nations. You will lie there among the outcasts who have died by the sword. This will be the fate of Pharaoh and all his teeming hordes. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!"
Genesis 37:11
- But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father gave it some thought and wondered what it all meant.
Genesis 2:8
- Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had created.
- And the LORD God planted all sorts of trees in the garden--beautiful trees that produced delicious fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Judges 9:8
- Once upon a time the trees decided to elect a king. First they said to the olive tree, `Be our king!'
- But it refused, saying, `Should I quit producing the olive oil that blesses both God and people, just to wave back and forth over the trees?'
- "Then they said to the fig tree, `You be our king!'
- But the fig tree also refused, saying, `Should I quit producing my sweet fruit just to wave back and forth over the trees?'
- "Then they said to the grapevine, `You be our king!'
Daniel 5:20
- But when his heart and mind were hardened with pride, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
- He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of an animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.
- "You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.
- For you have defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone--gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
Ecclesiastes 4:4
- Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
James 4:5
- What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within us, jealously longs for us to be faithful?
- He gives us more and more strength to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, "God sets himself against the proud, but he shows favor to the humble."
Psalms 75:6
- For no one on earth--from east or west, or even from the wilderness--can raise another person up.
- It is God alone who judges; he decides who will rise and who will fall.
Daniel 2:37
- Your Majesty, you are a king over many kings. The God of heaven has given you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor.
- He has made you the ruler over all the inhabited world and has put even the animals and birds under your control. You are the head of gold.
Ezekiel 17:24
- And all the trees will know that it is I, the LORD, who cuts down the tall tree and helps the short tree to grow tall. It is I who makes the green tree wither and gives new life to the dead tree. I, the LORD, have spoken! I will do what I have said."
Ezekiel 17:22
- "And the Sovereign LORD says: I will take a tender shoot from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel's highest mountain.