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Ezekiel 17:3

longwinged With long pinions. The eagle was also of "divers colours" or speckled, with reference possibly to the very diverse nationalities included in the Babylonian empire.

came unto Lebanon The figure of the eagle coming to Lebanon and cropping off the highest branch and top of the young twigs (Ezekiel 17:4) represents the carrying off of those highest in the land of Israel. Lebanon as opposed to Babylon is the mountain of Palestine; the cedar, the tree of Lebanon, appears to represent the royal Davidic house (Ezekiel 17:12; Ezekiel 17:22), and its highest branches king Jehoiachin and the princes who were carried away to Babylon (Ezekiel 17:12). On "land of traffic" (Ezekiel 17:4), cf. ch. Ezekiel 16:29.

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