Ezekiel 17:4 meaning and explanation
He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.
Ezekiel 17:4, Berean Standard Bible
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Ezekiel is speaking to the exiles in Babylon, and in this parable the great eagle is King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The topmost shoot of the cedar is King Jehoiachin of Judah, whom the Babylonians deported in 597 BC.
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