Cross references

Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God

could not rival it;

the cypresses

could not compare with its branches,

nor the plane trees

match its boughs.

No tree in the garden of God

could compare with its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 BSB
  1. a Or pines or junipers or firs
  2. b Possibly chestnut or juniper

Ezekiel 31:8 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 28:13 (5 votes) and Genesis 13:10 (4 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 2 to Revelation 2.

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Which verses does Ezekiel 31:8 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

  2. And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

  3. The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

  4. For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

  5. And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  6. I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

  7. Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”

  8. I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

  9. But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations. “Are not all my commanders kings?” he says. …

  10. The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours? You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me? …

  11. Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared? Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? …

Which verses point to Ezekiel 31:8?

The 10 strongest of 27.