Ezekiel 19:12
But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
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13And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
Cross References
2 Kings 23:29In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
2 Kings 24:6So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
2 Kings 25:6And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
Psalms 80:12\80:11\It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Psalms 80:16\80:15\Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.
Isaiah 5:5And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:11-14
The Fall of the Royal Family. ( b. c. 593.) 10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire… Read the whole commentary →