Jesus, Assyria and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
In the table below, we compare Jesus, Assyria and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The comparison is
based on the following Scriptures: Genesis 2-3 , Isaiah 10, Isaiah 53, Ezekiel 31, Zechariah 9:9 and the Book of
Revelation. The comparison is not exhaustive.
Jesus
A1 like a young plant
A2 like a root out of dry ground
A3 "he had no form or majesty that
we should look at him"
A4 "no beauty that we should
desire him"
He was despised and rejected
by men;
a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men
hide their faces
he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.
A5 Jesus is the humble king.
Jesus is the Holy and Righteous
One.
Assyria The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil
Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and
forest shade,
and of towering height,
its top among the clouds.
The waters nourished it;
the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow
around the place of its
planting,
sending forth its streams
to all the trees of the field.
The cedars in the garden of "So when the woman saw that the tree
God could not rival it was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes, and that the tree
"under its shadow lived all great was to be desired to make one wise, she
nations" took of its fruit and ate, and she also
gave some to her husband who was
"It was beautiful in its greatness, with her, and he ate."
in the length of its branches;
for its roots went down
to abundant waters."
no tree in the garden of God
was its equal in beauty
I made it beautiful
in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of Eden envied
it,
that were in the garden of
God.
Assyria is wicked.
Therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Because it towered
 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter
of Jerusalem! Behold, your king
is coming to you; righteous and
having salvation is he, humble
and mounted on a donkey, on a
colt, the foal of a donkey.
high and set its top among the
clouds, and its heart was proud
of its height, I will give it into the
hand of a mighty one of the
nations. He shall surely deal
with it as its wickedness
deserves. I have cast it out."

A6 Under the reign of King

Sennacherib (704 - 681),
Nineveh was the capital of the
Assyrian Empire.

A7 from his mouth comes a sharp Ah, Assyria, the rod of my

two-edged sword anger; the staff in their hands is
my fury!

The following verses are related to the subject matter here:

Proverbs 3:18
Proverbs 11:30
Proverbs 13:12
Proverbs 15:4
Proverbs 2:6
Psalm 1:3