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Ezekiel 31:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
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Role in This Section
The riddle or allegory and its interpretation states or reports “All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the…” at Ezekiel 31:6 as a specific part of “Assyria's Cedar Greatness Becomes Pharaoh's Warning.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 31:1–9
Read Ezekiel 31:6 with 31:1–9. By itself, “All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Egypt is asked whom it resembles; Assyria appears as a towering, well-watered cedar sheltering birds and beasts, unmatched by Eden's trees.
Why It Needs Context
Ezekiel 31:6 performs a local role inside “Assyria's Cedar Greatness Becomes Pharaoh's Warning.” The riddle or allegory and its interpretation states or reports “All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the…” at Ezekiel 31:6 as a specific part of “Assyria's Cedar Greatness Becomes Pharaoh's Warning.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Ezekiel 31:1–9 — Assyria's Cedar Greatness Becomes Pharaoh's WarningSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 31:1–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 31:1–9
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