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The current chapter is dated approximately two months later: \u201cIn the eleventh year on the first day of the third month\u201d (1). Moshe Greenberg recorded this date as 21 June 587 (Anchor Bible: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ezekiel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 636).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, the prophet likened the impending fate of Egypt to that which was suffered in an earlier era by Assyria. His oracle, which has three parts, begins and ends with a complementary literary envelope: \u201cO mortal, say to Pharaoh and his hordes who was comparable to you\u201d (2) and \u201cWho is comparable to you\u2026 Pharaoh and all his hordes\u201d (18).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first part of the oracle (3-9) uses the metaphor of a cedar tree of Lebanon to which all creatures were drawn, and which was the envy of all the trees of Eden. Part two (10-14) describes the disastrous consequences of the cedar\u2019s arrogance: it was cut down, dismembered, and abandoned. In part three (15-18), the cedar met up in Sheol (the netherworld) with the other trees that ultimately shared its fate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cedar of Lebanon figured prominently in an earlier prophecy (17:3), suggesting that Ezekiel was using it here as a symbol of the type of hubris detested by God. As in 19:12, the downfall of the haughty is likened to the snapping off of a tree limb, and the other trees, that serve here as a foil to the cedar, are also featured earlier (17:24), representing lower order kingdoms. The subsequent descent to Sheol, too, made a prior appearance in the prophecy about Tyre (26:19 ff.) and is also reminiscent of Isaiah 14:9-10:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSheol below was astir to greet your coming\u2014 rousing for you the shades of all earth\u2019s chieftains, raising from their thrones all the kings of nations. 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