Ezekiel 17:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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: ”

• Ezekiel 17:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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.

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  company . gathered force. make for him . help him persons . souls. Hebrew. nephesh . App-13.

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 p...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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:

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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.

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 ( Jeremiah 37...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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....

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 a...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1-15 ; Ezekiel 17:1-24 ; Ezekiel 19:1-14 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearances, the exiles still received his prediction of th...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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. Moreov...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 wit...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 wil...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 . Obse...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Parable of the Eagles; The Parable Explained; Ruin of Zedekiah Predicted. B. C.  593.       1...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 whic...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “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 Egyp...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PARABLE ( Ezekiel 17:11-21 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—From Ezekiel 17:12-17 we have the formal interpretation of the parable. In Ezekiel 17:19-21 , the threat contained in the...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 explain...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Double Application of the Parable

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• Ezekiel 17:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 29:6 ; Ezekiel 29:7 ; Ezekiel 4:2 ; Isaiah 36:6 ; Jeremiah 33:5 ; Jeremiah 37:7 ; Jeremiah 52:4 ; Lamentations 4:17

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