Ezekiel 17:1
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
King James Version
In Context
2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 17:1
God was, in the foregoing chapter, reckoning with the people of Judah, and bringing ruin upon them for their treachery in breaking covenant with him; in this chapter he is reckoning with the king of Judah for his treachery in breaking covenant with the king of Babylon; for when God came to contend with them he found many grounds of his controversy. The thing was now in doing: Zedekiah was practising with the king of Egypt underhand for assistance in a treacherous project he had formed to shake off the yoke of the… Read the whole commentary →