Ezekiel 29:3
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Cross-reference
Ezekiel 29:10 continues the same prophecy, expanding the judgment from Pharaoh to the whole land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 29:9 repeats Pharaoh's boast 'The Nile is mine, and I made it'—directly citing the same claim from verse 3.
Ezekiel 32:2 uses the same sea monster (whale/dragon) imagery for Pharaoh, deepening the metaphor of Egypt's pride and downfall.
Ezekiel 28:2 similarly condemns the prince of Tyre for claiming to be a god—paralleling Pharaoh's self-deification over the Nile.
Ezekiel 38:3 uses the identical 'I am against you' declaration against Gog — strong structural parallel.
Ezekiel 35:3 applies the same 'I am against you' formula to Mount Seir — a parallel judgment oracle.
Ezekiel 30:22 repeats the 'I am against Pharaoh' declaration from verse 3, adding broken arms.
Ezekiel 30:12 directly answers Pharaoh's boast — God will dry up the Nile he claimed as his own.
Ezekiel 28:22 uses the same 'I am against you' formula against Sidon, showing a parallel judgment pattern against different nations.
Revelation 20:2 identifies the dragon as Satan—revealing the spiritual reality behind Pharaoh as a type of the great enemy.
Revelation 12:3's dragon imagery builds on the same tradition, identifying Pharaoh's pride with the cosmic evil God conquers.
Revelation 12:3's great red dragon expands the OT dragon imagery to represent Satan, the ultimate adversary behind earthly tyrants.
Daniel 4:31 shows God's immediate judgment on Nebuchadnezzar's boast, similar to the judgment pronounced on Pharaoh.
In Daniel 4:30, Nebuchadnezzar similarly boasts of building Babylon by his own power, paralleling Pharaoh's pride.
Psalm 74:13 recalls God breaking the heads of dragons (tannin) — the same term used for Pharaoh, showing God's victory over chaos.
Psalm 74:14 mentions God crushing Leviathan, another sea monster, linking to the same symbolic enemy of God's people.
Isaiah 51:9 invokes God cutting Rahab and wounding the dragon, directly referencing Egypt's defeat as a past act of divine power.
Isaiah 27:1 prophesies God slaying Leviathan the dragon, echoing the same imagery of divine triumph over a serpentine foe.
Isaiah 10:13 also records a ruler's boast of self-made power, mirroring Pharaoh's claim 'I have made it for myself'.
Jeremiah 46:17 mocks Pharaoh as 'but a noise' who missed his opportunity — contrasting sharply with his arrogant dragon boast.
Nahum 2:13 employs the same 'I am against you' formula against Nineveh — a parallel judgment declaration.
Isaiah 14:13 records the king of Babylon's arrogant 'I will ascend' — a direct parallel to Pharaoh's prideful claim over the river.
Jeremiah 46:8 portrays Egypt rising like a flood and boasting of destruction — parallels Pharaoh's river pride in Ezekiel.
Jeremiah 50:31 has God say 'I am against thee, O most proud' — the same opening formula used against Pharaoh in Ezekiel.
Exodus 7:9 uses the same Hebrew word 'tannin' (dragon/serpent) for Aaron's rod, linking to Pharaoh as the great dragon.
Job 41:34 describes Leviathan as a king over all pride, mirroring Pharaoh's self-exaltation as a dragon claiming the Nile.
Revelation 12:17 shows the dragon waging war on the woman's offspring—paralleling Pharaoh's opposition to God's people.
Jeremiah 44:30 also pronounces judgment on Pharaoh (Hophra), reinforcing the theme of God opposing Egypt's king.
Deuteronomy 8:17 warns against saying 'my power got me this wealth'—paralleling Pharaoh's claim to have made the Nile for himself.
Revelation 12:16 uses the same dragon-and-river imagery, but the earth swallows the river—contrasting the dragon's claim over it.
Revelation 13:4 depicts worship of the dragon for his authority—mirroring Pharaoh's self-exaltation in claiming the Nile.