Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 31:8

8 The Cedars in the garden of God could not hide h him: the fir-trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches: nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

Kings, the greatest, and most magnificent.

Either in the most fruitful Gardens, or in Iudah and Israel ▪ not David, not Solomon, Iehoshaphat, or Hezekiah could top, and shade him.

A meaner sort of Trees, emblem of lesser Kings, and Kingdoms, these were but like his boughs, though they grow to great height, and bulk.

The same in another allusion, Kings▪ like Chesnut trees, great, when by themselves, yet compared with this Assyrian, were but as branches of his boughs, all which in Isaiah's words, cap. 10.7, 8. there was some truth, though more pride in this Speech of the Assyrian, which the Prophet reports.

All summed up, none like him in all the Kingdoms of the World.

Marginal references: Gen. 2.[illegible: 2 letters]