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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Ezekiel 17 Under the simile of two eagles and a vine are represented the kings of Babylon and Egypt, and the condition of the Jews, who are threatened with ruin for their perfidy; and yet a promise is made of the raising up of the house of Judah, and family of David, in the Messiah. The prophet is bid to deliver a riddle or parable to the house of Israel, Ezekiel 17:1. The riddle...
John Gill
Say now to the rebellious house,.... It had been a rebellious house to God, and to his prophets, before; see Ezekiel 2:5 and [See comments on Ezekiel 2:5]; and now, besides this was rebellious to the king of Babylon, to whom they were in some measure subject, Ezekiel 17:15; know ye not what these [things mean]? the riddle and parable concerning the two eagles and the vine; suggesting that they...
Matthew Henry
God was, in the foregoing chapter, reckoning with the people of Judah, and bringing ruin upon them for their treachery in breaking covenant with him; in this chapter he is reckoning with the king of Judah for his treachery in breaking covenant with the king of Babylon; for when God came to contend with them he found many grounds of his controversy. The thing was now in doing: Zedekiah was...