5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
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And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; …
And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. …
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We must take all these verses together, that we may have the parable and the explanation of it at one view before us, because they will illustrate one another. 1. The prophet is appointed to put forth a riddle to the house of Israel (Ezek. 17:2), not to puzzle them, as Samson’s riddle was put forth to the Philistines, not to hide the mind of God from them in obscurity, or to leave them in uncertai…
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