Ezekiel 17:22 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 17:22

Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:

KJV

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ASV

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain:

WEB

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

YLT

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have taken of the foliage of the high cedar, And I have set it , From the top of its tender shoots a tender one I crop, And I--I have planted it on a mountain high and lofty.

DBT

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the highest branch of the lofty cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of its young shoots a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and eminent mountain:

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Isaiah 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Micah 5:2
But thou, Beth–lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Luke 24:44
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Isaiah 41:19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Luke 13:19
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

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The branch he plucked (Zedekiah) and planted, flourished but for a time, to perish at last; I will plant a scion of the same tree, the house of David, to whom the kingdom belongs by an everlasting covenant, and it shall be the shelter of the whole world, and shall be for ever." branch--the peculiar title of Messiah (Zec 3:8;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

God himself undertakes the reviving and restoring of the house of David. Nebuchadnezzar was the great eagle that had attempted the re-establishing of the house of David in a dependence upon him,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: 14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The highest branch - Of the royal seed; of the highest branch that is heir to the throne; namely, the Messiah. An high mountain - Upon Mount Zion. Eminent - Not for outward splendour, but for spiritual advantages.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Connections1

Where this verse connects

Contrast Ezekiel 31:3
The tender messianic twig God plants to become a noble cedar (17:22-24) set against Assyria the felled cosmic cedar in Eden (Ezek 31) - the humble planting that outlasts the empire-tree. The cedar-of-Lebanon station's teaching edge (pride felled vs lowly exalted).
MT-ASV; H6086 (erez H730 cedar)

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H67885× in canon H836210× in canon H136441× in canon H73073× in canon H7311190× in canon H3069306× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 17:22ISA 53:2 PHP 2:6-7
EZE 17:22ISA 53:2 ISA 52:14
EZE 17:22ISA 53:2 ISA 11:1
EZE 17:22ISA 53:2 JHN 1:10-14
EZE 17:22ISA 53:2 MRK 6:3
EZE 17:22PSA 2:6 REV 14:1
EZE 17:22PSA 2:6 MAT 28:18
EZE 17:22PSA 2:6 EPH 1:22

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