Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 17:17
To cast up mounts and build forts - was the business not of the relieving but of the besieging army. Translate it: when men cast up mounts and build forts to destroy many persons.
To cast up mounts and build forts - was the business not of the relieving but of the besieging army. Translate it: when men cast up mounts and build forts to destroy many persons.
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...
COMPANY. gathered force. MAKE FOR HIM. help him PERSONS. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13....
The aid of Pharaoh shall be in vain; cf. Jeremiah 37:5, and the pathetic references to the hopes and disappointments of the besieged during the last days of Jerusalem in Lamentations 4:17. On "mounts...
MAKE FOR HIM, &C.— _Support him in the war, when they,_ that is to say, the Chaldeans, _cast up mounts, and build forts,_ &c. Houbigant....
B. The Explanation of the Eagle Parable 17:11-21 TRANSLATION (11) Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying, Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Say: The...
Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: PHARAOH - Pharaoh-hophra (; ), the successo...
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...
The Egyptians succeeded in raising the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 37:11), but the relief was only temporary, as Jeremiah foretold that it would be (Ezekiel 37:6)....
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...
BY CASTING UP MOUNTS. — This translation implies that “the casting up mounts and building forts” were to be the act of Pharaoh; but such things are done not by the relieving, but by the besieging army...
וְ לֹא֩ בְ חַ֨יִל גָּדֹ֜ול וּ בְ...
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...
_Souls. Some refer this to Pharao; others to the enemy. The former did not attempt to surround the besiegers, but after losing a battle retired, chap. xxx. 21. (Calmet)_...
We have here the Lord's own explanation of the parable. Israel is called a rebellious house, for it had been so to the Lord, and also to the King of Babylon. Indeed, if a nation be unfaithful to the L...
As Ezekiel has before pronounced that there was no need of great forces when God wished to punish Zedekiah by means of the king of Babylon; so he now teaches, on the other hand, how great and powerful...
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...
NEITHER SHALL PHARAOH, WITH [HIS] MIGHTY ARMY AND GREAT COMPANY, MAKE FOR HIM IN THE WAR,.... The king of Egypt, to whom Zedekiah applied for horses and men to help him; though he should come with a g...
Neither shall Pharaoh with [his] mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: Ver. 17. _Neither shall Pharaoh._] God will...
_As I live, saith the Lord_, &c. This intimates how highly God resented the crime, and how sure and severe the punishment of it would be. _He swears in his wrath_, as he did, Psalms 95:11. Observe, re...
Neither shall Pharaoh, upon whom Zedekiah depended, WITH HIS MIGHTY ARMY AND GREAT COMPANY, MAKE FOR HIM IN THE WAR, as Zedekiah's ally in battle, BY CASTING UP MOUNTS AND BUILDING FORTS, TO CUT OFF M...
THE DOUBLE APPLICATION OF THE PARABLE...
11-21 The parable is explained, and the particulars of the history of the Jewish nation at that time may be traced. Zedekiah had been ungrateful to his benefactor, which is a sin against God. In ever...
Let his army be made up of ever so many well-disciplined soldiers, if as many as the Egyptian can vainly promise, or the Jews more vainly hope. Great company possibly may refer to the multitudes which...
Ezekiel 17:17 Pharaoh H6547 mighty H1419 army H2428 great H7227 company H6951 do H6213 (H8799) war H4421 up...
“Neither will Pharaoh and his mighty army and great company perform for him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build siege-walls to cut off many persons.” God's verdict on the Pharaoh and Egypt...
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...
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 17:11 The first part identifies the characters of the fable (vv. Ezekiel 17:11) before spelling out the moral of the story (vv....
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PARABLE (Ezekiel 17:11) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—From Ezekiel 17:12 we have the formal interpretation of the parable. In Ezekiel 17:19, the threat contained in the parable is confir...
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...
Ezekiel 29:6; Ezekiel 29:7; Ezekiel 4:2; Isaiah 36:6; Jeremiah 33:5;...