Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters.
When God's people lie crushed, He sends word that the cup of trembling passes from their hands to the hands of those who hate them. God bids Pharaoh search history for a parallel to his own case: let him name any potentate he fancies himself equal to, and he will find that great man fell too. The falls of others are warnings against pride and false security.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 31:1-9
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field,.... His majesty, grandeur, and glory, were advanced above all princes, nobles, and people; all ranks and degrees of men, let them be compared to trees taller or lower: and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long; the provinces of his empire became more numerous, and were spread far and near, and...
when he shot forth--because of the abundant moisture which nourished him in shooting forth. But see Margin.