Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
cedars . . . could not hide him—could not outtop him. No other king eclipsed him.
were not like—were not comparable to.
garden of God—As in the case of Tyre (Ezekiel 28:13), the imagery, that is applied to the Assyrian king, is taken from Eden; peculiarly appropriate, as Eden was watered by rivers that afterwards watered Assyria (Genesis 2:10-14). This cedar seemed to revive in itself all the glories of paradise, so that no tree there outtopped it.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 31:8:
Ezekiel 17:3
Ezekiel 28:13
Ezekiel 36:35
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