All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth to their young; and all great nations lived under its shadow.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 31 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Assyria as a great cedar 'in whose boughs all the birds of the heavens made their nests' provides another canonical world-tree with nesting birds. Medium Volume; recurrence with Daniel and Ezekiel 17 makes the nesting-birds topos secure.
Medium confidenceEzekiel's Assyrian cedar in whose boughs 'all the birds of the sky made their nests' and under whose shadow great nations lived belongs to the same world-tree tradition Mark evokes. The shared birds-nest-in-the-shadow image reinforces recurrence across the prophetic kingdom-tree corpus.
Medium confidenceAssyria as a towering cedar in whose boughs 'all the birds of the air made their nests' — reinforces the prophetic tree-of-empire-sheltering-birds motif.
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