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title = "Ezekiel 17:1–15"
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date = "2023-04-15"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel17.1-15)
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The nice thing about confusing metaphors in the Bible is that usually if you
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just keep reading it will explain its own imagery for you. The Lord describes a
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great eagle with splendorous, colorful plumage. It comes to a cedar of Lebanon
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and removes the top-most branches and takes them to a trade city. Then it
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plants a seed in the land, cares for it and waters it, and it sprouts into a
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spreading vine. However, in spite of the good soil and water it received from
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the eagle, the vine started reaching out toward a different eagle to get.
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Because of this disloyalty, the vine will be rooted up and wither away.
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What does this mean? The Lord explains: the first great eagle is Babylon and
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the top of the cedar is the king and the upper crust of Jerusalem that were
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deported earlier. The vine is the king of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar set up in
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their place to be a vassal to Babylon. However, the new king sought aid from
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Egypt, the other eagle, and now he and his rule will be destroyed.
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* * *
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By Your grace we received wisdom and understanding.
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