Nebuchadnezzar then took Mattaniah, son of Josiah, and made him king under the name of Zedekiah. The "seed of the land" is the native royal house.

he placedit] The unknown form so rendered might be a verb, cf. Hosea 11:3. LXX. omits; Ew. conjectures slip, or cutting. The comparison to the willow (the sense is not certain, the word not occurring again) is suggested by the place where it was planted, beside great waters. "Water" is the requisite of every tree in the East, and "great waters" are the favourable conditions granted to Zedekiah. "They that drink water" is a name for trees, ch. Ezekiel 31:16.

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