Ezekiel 17:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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 princes of Judah.

A land of traffic - Chaldea.

A city of merchants - Babylon; for which this city was the most celebrated of all the cities of the east. Its situation procured it innumerable advantages; its two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Persian Gulf, gave it communication with the richest and the most distant nations.

Ezekiel 17:4

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.