8. 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
(Eze 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
(Ge 2:10-14).
This cedar seemed to revive in itself all the glories of paradise, so
that no tree there outtopped it.
JFB.
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