Ezekiel 17:1
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In Context
2'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile 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 →