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Ezekiel 31:1-18
Ezekiel 31:1-18
The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain
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Ezekiel 31 — OverviewEzekiel 31 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe prophecy of this chapter, as the two chapters before, is against
Egypt, and designed for the humbling and mortifying of Pharaoh. In
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in the close of the foregoing chapter about four months before. When
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