another great eagle. Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt.
bend her roots: i.e. looked for succour to Egypt. Compare verses: Ezekiel 17:5; Ezekiel 17:8
water it. From the Nile.
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Ezekiel 17:7
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.