Ezekiel 17:24

Bible Text

All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.

Babylon was the Mesopotamian empire that deported Judah’s king and nobles; Jerusalem in Canaan was Judah’s capital, while Lebanon supplied the cedar imagery for its royal house. Egypt was the foreign power Judah sought for help, but Ezekiel’s parable shows that God would judge this faithlessness and restore the Davidic line by his own sovereign action.

Places in this passage

Ezekiel 17:24 mentions Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Jerusalem and Lebanon.

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