Ezekiel 17:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then he took a seedling from the land, placed it in fertile soil; a plant by abundant waters, he set it like a willow twig.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:17

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Isaiah 15:7

Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Wadi of the Willows.

Isaiah 44:4

They shall spring up like a green tamarisk, like willows by flowing streams.

Jeremiah 12:2

You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; you are near in their mouths yet far from their hearts.

Jeremiah 37:1

Zedekiah son of Josiah, whom King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, succeeded Coniah son of Jehoiakim.

Ezekiel 17:13

He took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (he had taken away the chief men of the land),

Ezekiel 17:4

broke off its topmost shoot; he carried it to a land of trade, set it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 17:6

It sprouted and became a vine spreading out but low; its branches turned toward him; its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine; it brought forth branches, put forth foliage.

Ezekiel 31:4

The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, flowing with its rivers around the place it was planted, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field.

Ezekiel 31:5

So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.