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

As for them, whether they listen or refuse [to listen]—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know and be fully aware of the fact that there has been a prophet among them.

I have made your forehead like emery (diamond), harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house.”

“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, asked you, ‘What you are doing?’

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth;
For the Lord has spoken:
“I have reared and brought up sons,
But they have rebelled against Me and have broken away.

Know

The people said to me, “These things that you are doing—tell us, what do they mean for us?”

When your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and judgments (precepts) which the Lord our God has commanded you?’

so that this may be a sign among you; when your children ask later, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

“Have you understood all these things [in the lessons of the parables]?” They said to Jesus, “Yes.”

And He said, “Are you still so dull [and unable to put things together]?

How is it that you fail to understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Then He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand and grasp the meaning of all the parables?

However, they did not understand this statement. Its meaning was kept hidden from them so that they would not grasp it; and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Philip ran up and heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Behold

saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A great eagle (Nebuchadnezzar) with great wings, long pinions and a rich plumage of many colors came to Lebanon (Jerusalem) and took away the top of the cedar (Judah).

(On the fifth of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,

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

Jehoiachin was eight[teen] years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

“As I live,” says the Lord, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet [ring] on My right hand, yet would I pull you (Coniah) off.

And led

‘And some of your own sons (descendants) who will come from you, whom you will father, will be taken away, and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin [also called Coniah and Jeconiah] king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

General references

The people said to me, “These things that you are doing—tell us, what do they mean for us?”