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Verse Ezekiel 17:18. _SEEING HE DESPISED THE OATH_] This God
particularly resents. He had bound himself by oath, in the presence of
Jehovah, to be faithful to the covenant that he made with
Nebuchadne...
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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...
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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...
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LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.
GIVEN HIS HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct),
App-6, for making. covenant (2 Kings 10:13.Ezra 10:19; Jeremiah
50:15)....
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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...
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Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he
had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not
escape.
SEEING HE DESPISED THE OATH ... WHEN, LO, HE HAD GIVEN HI...
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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...
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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...
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וּ בָזָ֥ה אָלָ֖ה לְ הָפֵ֣ר בְּרִ֑ית וְ
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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...
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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...
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Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had
given (m) his hand, and hath done all these [things], he shall not
escape.
(m) Because he took the name of God in vain, and brok...
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_Hand. Swearing perhaps to both (Haydock) the Egyptian and to the
Chaldean monarch._...
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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...
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Ezekiel repeals again, that, even speaking, Zedekiah could not
succeed, since he violated the treaty for we yesterday said that this
persuasion is always fixed in men’s minds, that treaties are sacred...
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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...
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SEEING HE DESPISED THE OATH, BY BREAKING THE COVENANT,.... This is
repeated again, to show the heinousness of the sin Zedekiah had been
guilty of, and what was the cause of his ruin:
WHEN, LO, HE HAD...
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Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had
given his hand, and hath done all these [things], he shall not escape.
Ver. 18. _Seeing he despised the oath._] Despised it _ex...
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_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...
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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...
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This verse gives us the reason of this unhappy enterprise, which is
summed up in wilful, presumptuous, and most unparalleled perjury.
Zedekiah HAD GIVEN HIS HAND; a solemn confirming of the oath, or
c...
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Ezekiel 17:18 despised H959 (H8804) oath H423 breaking H6565 (H8687)
covenant H1285 gave H5414 (H8804) hand...
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“For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold,
he has given his hand, and yet has he done all these things. He will
not escape.”
The solemn nature of Zedekiah's vows is brought ou...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 29:24; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Ezekiel 17:15; Lamentations 5:6...
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Given his hand — Solemnly confirming the oath....