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Ezekiel 31:2

Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Earth, Land;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Paradise;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes,
Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, tell Par`oh king of Mitzrayim, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?
King James Version
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
English Standard Version
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness?
New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes, 'Whom are you like in your greatness?
New Century Version
"Human, say to the king of Egypt and his people: ‘No one is like you in your greatness.
Amplified Bible
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes, 'Whom are you like in your greatness?
World English Bible
Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, speake vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, and to his multitude, Whom art thou like in thy greatnesse?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes, 'Whom are you like in your greatness?
Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude,‘To whom do you liken yourself in your greatness?
Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: 'Who can be compared to your greatness?
Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, tell the king of Egypt and his people that I am saying: You are more powerful than anyone on earth. Now listen to this.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
Darby Translation
Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, say this to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people: "‘You are so great! Who can I compare you to?
George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his armed forces: To whom do you liken yourself in your greatness?
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "say to the king of Egypt and all his people: How powerful you are! What can I compare you to?
Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd, ‘To whom are you like in your greatness?
Literal Translation
Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his host: To whom are you like in your greatness?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, speake vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte, ad to all his people: Whom art thou like in yi greatnesse?
American Standard Version
Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: whom art thou like in thy greatness?
King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, speake vnto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude, Whom art thou like in thy greatnesse?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, speake vnto Pharao king of Egypt, and to all his people: whom art thou lyke in thy greatnesse?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
English Revised Version
Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, seie to Farao, kyng of Egipt, and to his puple, To whom art thou maad lijk in thi greetnesse?
Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
New English Translation
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes: "‘Who are you like in your greatness?
New King James Version
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness?
New Living Translation
"Son of man, give this message to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his hordes: "To whom would you compare your greatness?
New Life Bible
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his people, ‘Who can be compared with you in greatness?
New Revised Standard
Mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: Whom are you like in your greatness?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man Say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and unto his multitude, - Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness?
Young's Literal Translation
`Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and unto his multitude: To whom hast thou been like in thy greatness?

Contextual Overview

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness? 3 Look, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth. 6 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations. 7 Thus it was fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty. 9 I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

speak: Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah 1:17, Revelation 10:11

to his: Ezekiel 29:19, Ezekiel 30:10, Nahum 3:8-10

Whom: Ezekiel 31:18, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:14

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 29:15 - rule Ezekiel 32:19 - dost Amos 6:2 - better Zechariah 11:2 - Howl

Cross-References

Genesis 4:5
but to Cain and to his offering he did not have respect. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 30:27
And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in your eyes, [tarry]: [for] I have used magic and [found that] Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.
Genesis 31:9
Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis 31:11
And the angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here I am.
Exodus 4:10
And Moses said to Yahweh, Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before, nor since you have spoken to your slave; for I am slow of mouth, and slow of tongue.
Deuteronomy 19:4
And this is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him in time past;
Deuteronomy 28:54
The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining;
1 Samuel 19:7
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as formerly.
Daniel 3:19
Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,.... To Pharaohhophra, the then reigning king; not to him personally by word of mouth, for the prophet was now in Chaldea; but by delivering out a prophecy concerning him, and which he might have an opportunity of sending to him:

and to his multitude; the multitude of his subjects, of which he boasted, and in whom he trusted:

whom art thou like in thy greatness? look over all the records of time, and into all the empires, kingdoms, and states that have been; draw a comparison between thyself and the greatest potentate that ever was; fancy thyself to be equal to him; this will not secure thee from ruin and destruction; for as they have been humbled, and are fallen, so wilt thou be: pitch for instance on the Assyrian monarch, whose empire has been the most ancient, extensive, and flourishing, and yet now crushed; and as thou art like him in greatness, at least thou thinkest so, so thou art in pride, and wilt be in thine end; to assure of which is the drift of the following account of the king of Assyria.


 
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