[[Ezek-31]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Ezek-30]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Ezek-32]] --- ### Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches... I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness. Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The text describes the fall of the Assyrian Empire as a completed divine judgment, where a once-mighty nation was cut down by 'strangers' and 'the mighty one of the nations' because of its pride. *Historical context*: The Assyrian Empire, centered in Nineveh, fell to a coalition of Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians in 612 BC. The final remnants of the Assyrian army were defeated at the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II. This historical event occurred decades before Ezekiel's 587 BC prophecy, serving as a documented realization of earlier warnings. *Related to*: [[Nah-03#v7|Nahum 3:7]], 19 and [[Zeph-02#v13|Zephaniah 2:13]]-15, which predicted the total and irreversible destruction of Assyria and its capital, Nineveh. ### To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Ezekiel predicts that Pharaoh Hophra and the nation of Egypt will suffer the same fate as the Assyrian Empire—complete humiliation and destruction, ending in death and a descent into the figurative 'pit' of Sheol. *Historical context*: Following this prophecy, Pharaoh Hophra (Apries) was defeated by a rebellion led by his general Amasis II around 570 BC and was later killed during a failed attempt to regain the throne with Babylonian support. Furthermore, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon invaded Egypt in 568-567 BC, plundering the nation and ending its status as a major independent regional power, fulfilling the prediction of Egypt being 'brought down.' *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy