top. topmost.
traffick. Babylon.
A land of traffick - The land of Babylon.
He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of (b) trade; he set it in a city of merchants. (b) Meaning to Babylon.
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...
WE began yesterday to explain the saying of the Prophet, that an eagle came to mount Lebanon, and there cropped off the top of a cedar, that...
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. The top of his young twigs - The...
Carried it into a land of traffick— Babylon and the country round it, being the seat of universal monarchy, must of consequence have been a place o...
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. He ... earned it into a...
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 intrigu...
Into a land of traffick. — Literally, a land of Canaan, the word being sometimes used for merchant or merchandise, as in Hosea 12:8 (Engl. 7);...
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 appearanc...
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...
Perhaps this great eagle represents Nebuchadnezzar, who carried Jeconiah, when quite a youth, and, like a tender twig, unable to resist any bird of p...
He cropped off the top of his young twigs ,.... By which are meant the princes of the land, or the several branches of the royal family; the top of...
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. Ver. 4. He cropped off the to...
A great eagle with great wings The eagle is the king of birds, swift, strong, and rapacious. And this great eagle, according to all interpreters, r...
The Parable of the Eagles; The Parable Explained; Ruin of Zedekiah Predicted. B. C. 5...
Cropped off; as a gardener that crops off the goodliest scions, and carrieth them away to graft on some other stock. The top; both the king of Juda...
“And say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which was many-coloured, came to Lebanon and...
THE HUMILIATION AND EXALTATION OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID (Chap 17) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The word of prophecy in this chapter is introduced in the way of a...
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 J...
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel. Prophecy in parable The word “riddle” may in this connection mean...
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...
The Riddle Itself
he cropped off the top of his young twigs, the uppermost one, and carried it into a land of traffic, literally, "to the land of Canaan," that is, t...
Isaiah 43:14 ; Isaiah 47:15 ; Jeremiah 51:13 ; Revelation 18:11-19 ; Revelation 18:3
The top — Both the king of Judah, now eighteen years old, and the nobles and chief of the land. Into a land — Babylon, which was a city of mighty t...
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.