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Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
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Verse 3. Assyrian. The ruin of this great empire ( Calmet.) might have admonished the king of Egypt of his frail condition. Bible.—About thirty-eight years before ( Calmet.) Ninive had been taken, and its king (Sarac or Chinaladan) slain by his own general, Nabopolassar, and by Astyages, of Media. They divided the empire between them, and the father of Nabuchodonosor fixed his residence at Babylon. Usher, A. 3378.—Cedar. Septuagint “cypress.”—Top; the king of Ninive. Calmet.—Egypt’s monarch thought himself invincible; yet would fall like the Assyrians. Worthington.
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