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

And as for them, whether they listen or not -- for they are a rebellious house -- they will know that a prophet has been among them.

I have made your forehead harder than flint -- like diamond! Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house."

"Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you, 'What are you doing?'

Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: "I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

Know

Then the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?"

When your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' --

When your children ask you later on, "What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?"

The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday, 'Why are these stones important to you?'

"Have you understood all these things?" They replied, "Yes."

Jesus said, "Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, "Do you understand what you're reading?"

Behold

Say to them: 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'A great eagle with broad wings, long feathers, with full plumage which was multi-hued, 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 generals of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of the Lord.

The Lord says, "As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah, king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be the earthly representative of my authority. Indeed, I will take that right away from you.

And led

Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

General references

Then the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?"