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# General Information:
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Yahweh's parable about the cedar continues.
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# when I threw it down to Sheol with those who went down into the pit
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Here "threw it down to Sheol" is an idiom that means to kill. "The pit" refers to the grave; because the grave was thought to be the entrance to the world of the dead, the pit also represents that world. See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 31:14](./14.md). Alternate translation: "when I killed the cedar and it went to Sheol with everyone else that is dead" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# in the lowest parts of the earth
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"that were already deep down in the ground." This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "that had already died and are now in Sheol" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# the choicest and best trees of Lebanon; the trees that drank the waters
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"the best trees of Lebanon that everyone would want; trees that got a lot of water." This is describing the trees of Eden that were in the lowest parts of the earth.
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# the choicest
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This is something that everyone would want because it is very good.
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