Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 17:4
The top — Both the king of Judah, now eighteen years old, and the nobles and chief of the land. Into a land — Babylon, which was a city of mighty trade.
The top — Both the king of Judah, now eighteen years old, and the nobles and chief of the land. Into a land — Babylon, which was a city of mighty trade.
Verse Ezekiel 17:4. _THE TOP OF HIS YOUNG TWIGS_] The princes of Judah. _A LAND OF TRAFFIC_] Chaldea. _A CITY OF MERCHANTS_] Babylon; for which this city was the most celebrated of all the cities o...
A LAND OF TRAFFICK - The land of Babylon....
Ezekiel 17:1. The great eagle mentioned first is Nebuchadnezzar. (See Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22). He came to Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar, the symbol of the house of David, wh...
EZEKIEL 17. THE PERFIDIOUS KING. Jerusalem, as we have seen, is to be punished for her guilty past and her perfidious people (Ezekiel 17:16), but no less for her guilty present and her perfidious king...
TOP. topmost. TRAFFICK. Babylon....
The riddle of the great eagle (1) Ezekiel 17:1 introduction. The great, broadwinged, speckled eagle came to Lebanon, and broke off the top of the cedar, carrying it to the merchant-land, Babylon the...
CARRIED IT INTO A LAND OF TRAFFICK— Babylon and the country round it, being the seat of universal monarchy, must of consequence have been a place of great trade. Strabo tells us, that the merchants wh...
IV. THE KING: A LOWLY VINE 17:1-21 In chapter 17 Ezekiel turns his attention to King Zedekiah back in Jerusalem. This vassal king had committed an act of treachery against Nebuchadnezzar by breaking h...
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. HE ... EARNED IT INTO A LAND OF TRAFFIC ... A CITY OF MERCHANTS - Babylon (), f...
17:4 land; (d-16) Heb. 'land of _ Canaan_ .' see ch. 16.29....
ZEDEKIAH'S PERFIDY AND ITS PUNISHMENT Zedekiah had been placed on the throne of Judah as a vassal of Babylon, but was led by his nobles to intrigue with Egypt and to throw off the Babylonian yoke. The...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 17 * This chapter contains a puzzle and its meaning. Two po...
INTO A LAND OF TRAFFICK. — Literally, _a land of Canaan,_ the word being sometimes used for merchant or merchandise, as in Hosea 12:8 (Engl. 7); Isaiah 23:8; Zephaniah 1:11. The parallelism of the nex...
אֵ֛ת רֹ֥אשׁ יְנִֽיקֹותָ֖יו קָטָ֑ף וַ יְבִיאֵ֨הוּ֙...
THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1; Ezekiel 17:1; Ezekiel 19:1 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearances, the exiles still received his prediction of the fall of Jerusalem...
Commanded by Jehovah, the prophet then put forth a riddle. A great eagle came on Lebanon, and took off the top of the cedar, planting the young twigs in a land of traffic, a city of merchants. Moreove...
He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of (b) trade; he set it in a city of merchants. (b) Meaning to Babylon....
_Twigs. The young king and his officers, who had scarcely got established. (Calmet) --- Chanaan. This name, which signifies traffic, is not taken here for Palestine, but for Chaldea; and the city of m...
Perhaps this great eagle represents Nebuchadnezzar, who carried Jeconiah, when quite a youth, and, like a tender twig, unable to resist any bird of prey, into Babylon. 2 Kings 24:8. The land of traffi...
WE began yesterday to explain the saying of the Prophet, _that an eagle came to mount Lebanon, and there cropped off the top of a cedar_, that is, the highest bough. Some interpreters seem to me to la...
Chapter 17 present the judgment of Zedekiah for despising the oath that Nebuchadnezzar made him take in the name of Jehovah. Israel not having been able to stand in integrity before God, Jehovah had c...
HE CROPPED OFF THE TOP OF HIS YOUNG TWIGS,.... By which are meant the princes of the land, or the several branches of the royal family; the top of which was King Jeconiah, who was but young and tender...
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. Ver. 4. _He cropped off the top of his young twigs,_] _i.e., _ The nobles carried...
_A great eagle with great wings_ The eagle is the king of birds, swift, strong, and rapacious. And this great eagle, according to all interpreters, represents Nebuchadnezzar. Its “greatness, long wing...
he cropped off the top of his young twigs, the uppermost one, AND CARRIED IT INTO A LAND OF TRAFFIC, literally, "to the land of Canaan," that is, to a land which, in both its commercial ambitions and...
THE RIDDLE ITSELF...
1-10 Mighty conquerors are aptly likened to birds or beasts of prey, but their destructive passions are overruled to forward God's designs. Those who depart from God, only vary their crimes by changin...
CROPPED OFF; as a gardener that crops off the goodliest scions, and carrieth them away to graft on some other stock. The top; both the king of Judah, now eighteen years old, and the nobles and chief o...
Ezekiel 17:4 off H6998 (H8804) topmost H7218 twig H3242 carried H935 (H8686) land H776 trade H3667 set...
“And say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which was many-coloured, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar. He cropped off the topm...
CONTENTS: Parable of the great eagle. Rebellion of Zedekiah and its results. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Zedekiah, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: He who breaks covenant with God, and tramples the directions of...
Ezekiel 17:2. _Put forth a riddle._ A parable, or ingenious allegory, that the acumen of the composition may attract attention from the rulers of Judah. This parable is likewise ingeniously explained...
_Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel._ PROPHECY IN PARABLE The word “riddle” may in this connection mean parable, picture, symbol; whatever will excite and in...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 17:1 If ch. Ezekiel 16:1 can be said to express a theological point of view, ch. Ezekiel 17:1
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 17:3 The terms of the description are significant, for they indicate the status of the various characters. This is the greater eagle, taking a TOPMOST twig as well as a SEED....
THE HUMILIATION AND EXALTATION OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID (Chap 17) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The word of prophecy in this chapter is introduced in the way of a riddle and a parable (Ezekiel 17:2). The parable its...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 17:2 PUT FORTH A RIDDLE, etc. Again there is an interval of silence, till another theme is suggested to the prophet's mind and worked out elaborately. This he describes as a "riddl...
CHAPTER 17. THE PARABLE OF THE TWO GREAT EAGLES, AND THE CROPPING OF THE CEDAR OF LEBANON. Ezekiel 17:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 17:2. _Son of man, put forth a riddle,...
Now in chapter 17 he speaks a parable of a great eagle. And this is where some of these harebrained people begin to spiritualize and try to read the United States into prophecy. Because there is an ea...
Isaiah 43:14; Isaiah 47:15; Jeremiah 51:13; Revelation 18:11;...