Verse 6
‘His branches will spread, and his beauty will be as the olive-tree, and his odour as Lebanon.’
As a result of their strong roots their branches will spread, the sign of a healthy tree, and they will have the beauty of an olive tree, one of the most desirable of trees in Israelite eyes (compare Jeremiah 11:16; Psalms 52:8), whilst the odour that issued forth from them would be ‘as Lebanon’ (compare Song of Solomon 2:14; Song of Solomon 4:10-11). No one who had visited Lebanon could forget the beautiful aroma of the trees. It is an idealistic picture.
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