Ezekiel 31:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.

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  • Ezek 17:23 : 23 It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.
  • Dan 4:12 : 12 Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.
  • Dan 4:21 : 21 Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:
  • Matt 13:32 : 32 Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

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  • Ezek 31:3-5
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    85%

    3See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.

    4It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

    5In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.

  • Ezek 31:7-10
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    7So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.

    8No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

    9I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

    10For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,

  • Ezek 31:12-14
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    12And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.

    13All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:

    14In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.

  • Dan 4:20-21
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    84%

    20The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;

    21Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:

  • Dan 4:11-12
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    11And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

    12Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

  • Ezek 17:22-24
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    22This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;

    23It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

    24And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

  • Ps 80:9-11
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    80%

    9You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

    10The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

    11It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

  • Ps 104:12
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    12The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

  • Ezek 17:3-8
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    3And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

    4Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.

    5And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

    6And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

    7And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.

    8He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

  • Ezek 19:11
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    11And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.

  • Ps 104:16-17
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    76%

    16The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

    17Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

  • Dan 4:14-15
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    76%

    14Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches:

    15But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.

  • Hos 14:6-7
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    6I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

    7His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

  • Ps 148:9-10
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    9Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:

    10Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

  • Isa 44:14
    74%

    14He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.

  • Num 24:6
    73%

    6They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

  • Ezek 31:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.

    17And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

  • Job 40:21-22
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    21Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

    22Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

  • Mark 4:32
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    32But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

  • Isa 14:8
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    8Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

  • Job 29:19
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    19My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

  • Isa 2:13
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    13And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;

  • Judg 9:10
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    10Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us.

  • Job 8:16
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    16He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

  • Isa 34:15
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    15The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

  • Isa 18:6
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    6They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.