Bible Cross References
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Daniel 4:20-26
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The tree, so tall that it reached the sky, could be seen by everyone in the world.
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Its leaves were beautiful, and it had enough fruit on it to feed the whole world. Wild animals rested under it, and birds made their nests in its branches.
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"Your Majesty, you are the tree, tall and strong. You have grown so great that you reach the sky, and your power extends over the whole world.
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While Your Majesty was watching, an angel came down from heaven and said, 'Cut the tree down and destroy it, but leave the stump in the ground. Wrap a band of iron and bronze around it, and leave it there in the field with the grass. Let the dew fall on this man, and let him live there with the animals for seven years.'
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"This, then, is what it means, Your Majesty, and this is what the Supreme God has declared will happen to you.
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You will be driven away from human society and will live with wild animals. For seven years you will eat grass like an ox and sleep in the open air, where the dew will fall on you. Then you will admit that the Supreme God controls all human kingdoms and that he can give them to anyone he chooses.
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The angel ordered the stump to be left in the ground. This means that you will become king again when you acknowledge that God rules all the world.
Psalm 37:35
I once knew someone wicked who was a tyrant; he towered over everyone like a cedar of Lebanon;
Psalm 37:36
but later I passed by, and he wasn't there; I looked for him, but couldn't find him.
Isaiah 10:33
The LORD Almighty will bring them crashing down like branches cut off a tree. The proudest and highest of them will be cut down and humiliated.
Isaiah 10:34
The LORD will cut them down as trees in the heart of the forest are cut down with an ax, as even the finest trees of Lebanon fall!
Jeremiah 12:2
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bear fruit. They always speak well of you, yet they do not really care about you.
Ezekiel 31:3-18
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You are like a cedar in Lebanon, With beautiful, shady branches, A tree so tall it reaches the clouds.
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There was water to make it grow, And underground rivers to feed it. They watered the place where the tree was growing And sent streams to all the trees of the forest.
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Because it was well-watered, It grew taller than other trees. Its branches grew thick and long.
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Every kind of bird built nests in its branches; The wild animals bore their young in its shelter; The nations of the world rested in its shade.
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How beautiful the tree was--- So tall, with such long branches. Its roots reached down to the deep-flowing streams.
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No cedar in God's garden could compare with it. No fir tree ever had such branches, And no plane tree such limbs. No tree in God's own garden was so beautiful.
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I made it beautiful, with spreading branches. It was the envy of every tree in Eden, the garden of God.
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"Now then, I, the Sovereign LORD, will tell you what is going to happen to that tree that grew until it reached the clouds. As it grew taller it grew proud;
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so I have rejected it and will let a foreign ruler have it. He will give that tree what it deserves for its wickedness.
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Ruthless foreigners will cut it down and leave it. Its branches and broken limbs will fall on every mountain and valley in the country. All the nations that have been living in its shade will go away.
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The birds will come and perch on the fallen tree, and the wild animals will walk over its branches.
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And so from now on, no tree, no matter how well-watered it is, will grow that tall again or push its top through the clouds and reach such a height. All of them are doomed to die like mortals, doomed to join those who go down to the world of the dead."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "On the day when the tree goes to the world of the dead, I will make the underground waters cover it as a sign of mourning. I will hold back the rivers and not let the many streams flow out. Because the tree has died, I will bring darkness over the Lebanon Mountains and make all the trees of the forest wither.
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When I send it down to the world of the dead, the noise of its downfall will shake the nations. All the trees of Eden and all the choice, well-watered trees of Lebanon who have gone to the world below will be pleased at its downfall.
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They will go with it to the world of the dead to join those that have already fallen. And all who live under its shadow will be scattered among the nations.
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"The tree is the king of Egypt and all his people. Not even the trees in Eden were so tall and impressive. But now, like the trees of Eden, it will go down to the world of the dead and join the ungodly and those killed in battle. I have spoken," says the Sovereign LORD.