Ezekiel 17:20
And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.
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Joshua 10:16And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave that is in Makkedah.
2 Chronicles 33:11And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasseh in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely man also knows not his time: 1 As fish that are taken in an evil net, 1 And as birds that are caught in a snare; 1 Even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, 1 When it falls suddenly upon them. 1
Jeremiah 2:35Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jeremiah 39:5and Zedekiah shall go into Babylon, and dwell there?
Lamentations 1:13He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, 1 He has brought it into my bones: 1 He has spread a net for my feet, 1 He has turned me back: 1 He has made me desolate 1 And mourning all the day. 1
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 17:2-22
The Parable of the Eagles; The Parable Explained; Ruin of Zedekiah Predicted. ( b. c. 593.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God ; A great eagle with great wings, long-winged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: 4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of… Read the whole commentary →