Ezekiel 17:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

To the

Know

Behold

Jeremiah 22:24

And led

Isaiah 39:7

Jeremiah 52:31

General references

Ezekiel 24:19

Bible References

To the

Whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, even though they are a rebellious house.”

“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, that rebellious house, asked you, ‘What are you doing?’

Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth,
for the Lord has spoken:
“I have raised children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against Me.

Know

Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’

“When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which the Lord our God has commanded you?’

so that this will be a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

“Have you understood all these things?”

“Yes,” they told Him.

“Are even you still lacking in understanding?” He asked.

Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”

Then He said to them: “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables?

But they did not understand this statement; it was concealed from them so that they could not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Behold

You are to say: This is what the Lord God says:

A great eagle with great wings, long pinions,
and full plumage of many colors
came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.

On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile—

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king and reigned three months and 10 days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

“As I live,” says the Lord, “though you, Coniah

son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would tear you from it.

And led

‘Some of your descendants who come from you will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

General references

Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”