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Ezek. 31:1–18 Ezekiel’s fifth oracle against Egypt dates to June 587 b.c., only a few weeks after the preceding unit. Here the prophet points to Assyria as an object lesson for Egypt. In its dying days, the once-mighty Assyrian Empire looked to Egypt for help against the growing power of Babylon (c. 610 b.c.). Even together they could not withstand the Babylonians. That had been just 23 years earlier, well within living memory. In Isaiah’s prophecies, given even earlier, proud Assyria was destroyed by the Lord (Isa. 10:5–19). This, Ezekiel says, is the fate awaiting Egypt.
Ezek. 31:8–9 The garden of God is mentioned three times and compared with Eden (also vv. 16, 18). I (God) made it beautiful, leaving no room for self-admiration (v. 9).
Ezek. 31:10–14 Mighty one of the nations, paralleled by the most ruthless of nations, refers elsewhere to Babylon (28:7). Those who once prospered in Egypt’s shadow now leave it.
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