Here we have a riddle where Babylon and Egypt are two eagles. Judgment of Judah is the certain outcome for rejecting divine chastisement by resorting to their own strategies. In their revolt against Babylon they were resisting God's plan. In their rushing off to Egypt similarly ran counter to God's Will. Like Sodom, Egypt has been judged so it was foolishness to seek help from a tottering wall.
Splendor of Babylon owed to it strategic location, trade routes facilitated commerce with India and other places and the name Babylon which we shall come across is reinvented for the end times (Re.18:2). Mighty Babylon is not precisely the place we are here concerned with. As with the Spirit's narrative mode persons and places are often a double for some other. We had just seen daughter of Zion once removed from her vows of betrothal being compared to Sodom.'Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness (16:49).'
King of Babylon took ' the highest branch' meaning Jehoiachin king of Judah. "Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land./The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans(2 Ki.24:15-16).Only the poorest of the people were left behind.
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.
Seed of the land or son of the native soil meaning Zedekiah who was the uncle of Jehoiachin, of David's family. In allowing him to continue under changed circumstances it ought to have been fortuitous for his family.
'He placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree' refers to Judea was 'a good land-a land with brooks, streams,
Here we have a riddle where Babylon and Egypt are two eagles. Judgment of Judah is the certain outcome for rejecting divine chastisement by resorting to their own strategies. In their revolt against Babylon they were resisting God's plan. In their rushing off to Egypt similarly ran counter to God's Will. Like Sodom, Egypt has been judged so it was foolishness to seek help from a tottering wall.
Splendor of Babylon owed to it strategic location, trade routes facilitated commerce with India and other places and the name Babylon which we shall come across is reinvented for the end times (Re.18:2). Mighty Babylon is not precisely the place we are here concerned with. As with the Spirit's narrative mode persons and places are often a double for some other. We had just seen daughter of Zion once removed from her vows of betrothal being compared to Sodom.'Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness (16:49).'
King of Babylon took ' the highest branch' meaning Jehoiachin king of Judah. "Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land./The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans(2 Ki.24:15-16).Only the poorest of the people were left behind.
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.
Seed of the land or son of the native soil meaning Zedekiah who was the uncle of Jehoiachin, of David's family. In allowing him to continue under changed circumstances it ought to have been fortuitous for his family.
'He placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree' refers to Judea was 'a good land-a land with brooks, streams,
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