Ezekiel 17:7

But there was another great eagle with large wings and many feathers. 1 Behold! This vine turned its roots toward the eagle, 1 and it spread out its branches toward the eagle from the place it had been planted so it would be watered. 1

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There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

In Context

6Then it sprouted and became a spreading vine low to the ground. 1 Its branches turned toward him, and its roots grew under it. 1 So it became a vine and produced branches and sent out shoots. 1

8It had been planted in good soil beside a large body of water 1 so it would produce branches and sprout fruit, to become a magnificent vine.' 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:20Through Yahweh's anger, all these events happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he drove them out of his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 37:5Pharaoh's army came out from Egypt, and the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the news about them and left Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 31:4Many waters made it tall; the deep waters made it huge. Rivers flowed all around its area, 1 for their channels stretched out to all the trees in the field. 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 →

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