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Ezekiel
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The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; See also: Ezekiel 20:49Matthew 13:35Judges 9:8-15and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers which had various colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar. See also: Hosea 8:1Jeremiah 48:40Ezekiel 17:7He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants. See also: Revelation 18:3Isaiah 43:14Isaiah 47:15“‘“He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree. See also: Isaiah 44:4Deuteronomy 8:7-92 Kings 24:17It grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs. See also: Ezekiel 17:14Proverbs 16:18-19“‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the ground where it was planted, that he might water it. See also: Ezekiel 17:15Ezekiel 31:42 Kings 24:20It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’ See also: Ezekiel 17:5-6“Say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it may wither, that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people. See also: Ezekiel 17:10Jeremiah 32:5Ezekiel 17:15-17Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the ground where it grew.”’” See also: Hosea 13:15John 15:6Matthew 21:19Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon. See also: Ezekiel 24:19Ezekiel 17:3Ezekiel 1:2He took one of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land, See also: 2 Chronicles 36:132 Kings 24:15-17Ezekiel 17:5that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. See also: Ezekiel 29:14Nehemiah 9:36-37Jeremiah 38:17But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape? See also: Deuteronomy 17:162 Kings 24:20Jeremiah 38:18“‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die. See also: Ezekiel 12:13Jeremiah 52:112 Samuel 21:2Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons. See also: Jeremiah 37:7Ezekiel 29:6-7Isaiah 36:6For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape. See also: 1 Chronicles 29:242 Chronicles 30:8Lamentations 5:6“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken. See also: Jeremiah 5:2Deuteronomy 5:11Jeremiah 5:9I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. See also: Ezekiel 12:13Ezekiel 20:35-36Ezekiel 32:3All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken it.’ See also: 2 Kings 25:112 Kings 25:5Ezekiel 5:12“The Lord GOD says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. See also: Isaiah 53:2Isaiah 11:1-5Zechariah 6:12-13I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches. See also: Matthew 13:32Ezekiel 31:6Isaiah 2:2All the trees of the field will know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “‘I, the LORD, have spoken and have done it.’” See also: Amos 9:111 Corinthians 1:27-28Luke 1:52-53
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 17:2
Ver. 2. Riddle. Thus the prophets and Christ often delivered their doctrine. C.
↑ 2Ezekiel 17:3
Ver. 3. A large eagle. Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon. Ch. --- The multitude of his subjects, and his rapid and cruel conquests, are designated. C. --- He spoils the vineyard of Jerusalem, notwithstanding the Jews had applied to another eagle, the king of Egypt. v. 12. W. --- Libanus.
That is, Jerusalem; (Ch.) or invaded the country, (C.) entering by Libanus. H. ---
Cedar. King Jechonias Ch. and his nobles, (4 Kin. xxiv. 11.) with the most precious effects.
↑ 3Ezekiel 17:4
Ver. 4. Twigs. The young king and his officers, who had scarcely got established. C. ---
Chanaan. This name, which signifies traffic, is not taken here for Palestine, but for Chaldea; and the city of merchants here mentioned is Babylon. Ch. --- It was so corrupt as to deserve this appellation, as Rome was afterwards styled Babylon. Its situation was very favourable to traffic, and its dominions were very extensive. C.
↑ 4Ezekiel 17:5
Ver. 5. Land. Sedecias, whom he made king. Ch. --- He was brother of the dethroned king, and have every prospect of reigning long, if he had proved faithful. C.
↑ 5Ezekiel 17:6
Ver. 6. Towards him. Nabuchodonosor, to whom Sedecias swore allegiance.
Ch. --- Lit. "to it,"
eam, the eagle. H. --- The dominions of Sedecias were extensive, but weak, and dependant on a foreign king.
↑ 6Ezekiel 17:7
Ver. 7. Eagle. The king of Egypt, (Ch.) Vaphres, who came at the request of Sedecias, to oppose the Chaldeans, but was routed; and they returned to the siege of Jerusalem. Jer. xxxvii. 4. ---
Plantation, as the waters of the Nile were conducted to different parts by ditches. Deut. xi. 10.
↑ 7Ezekiel 17:9
Ver. 9. Prosper. Will God countenance perfidy? C. --- "Faith must be kept even with enemies."
S. Jer. --- Arm. The conquest did not cost the Chaldeans much. Sedecias fled by night, but was soon taken. 4 K. xxv. 6. C.
↑ 9Ezekiel 17:12
Ver. 12. Shall, or, "hath taken," &c. Ch. as also (v. 13.) Sedecias was seized five years after. C.
viii. 1. Jechonias, the princes, mighty warriors, (v. 13.) and expert artists, had been taken away six years before, with the prophet. Prot. "is come,...and hath taken," &c. H.
↑ 12Ezekiel 17:16
Ver. 16. Die. He had sworn fidelity, and was justly punished, dying blind, and in prison. C. xii.
W.
↑ 16Ezekiel 17:17
Ver. 17. Souls. Some refer this to Pharao; others to the enemy. The former did not attempt to surround the besiegers, but after losing a battle retired. C. xxx.
21. C.
↑ 17Ezekiel 17:18
Ver. 18. Hand. Swearing perhaps to both (H.) the Egyptian and to the Chaldean monarch.
↑ 18Ezekiel 17:20
Ver. 20. Net. C. xii. 13. C. --- Judge, punish. H. --- His sentence was pronounced at Reblatha.
4 Kin. xxv. 7. C.
↑ 20Ezekiel 17:22
Ver. 22. Cedar. Of the Royal stock of David. --- Twig. Jesus Christ, whom God hath planted in Mount Sion, that is, the high mountain of his Church, to which all nations flow. Ch. --- The Jews in vain apply this to Zorobabel or to the Machabees. Their power was never great enough to verify these expressions.
C. --- But Christ has united in his Church all the birds, or those who have strength enough to raise themselves above earthly things. S. Jer. Theod. &c.
--- The kingdom of Sedecias and that of Nabuchodonosor prospered not, or was soon at an end: Christ remains for ever. W.
↑ 22Ezekiel 17:24
Ver. 24. High and green denote Sedecias; low and dry Jechonias, who was exalted at Babylon, while his rival was hurled down from his present high estate. The prophets speak of that as past, which God has decreed. See Jer.
xxii. 30. C.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses