Ezekiel 17:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig,

Cross References

2 Kings 24:17

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his stead, 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 Brook of the Willows.

Isaiah 44:4

They shall spring up like grass amid waters, like willows by flowing streams.

Jeremiah 12:2

Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.

Jeremiah 37:1

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

Ezekiel 17:13

And he took one of the seed royal and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. (The chief men of the land he had taken away,

Ezekiel 17:4

he broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade, and set it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 17:6

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

Ezekiel 31:4

The waters nourished it, the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow round the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the forest.

Ezekiel 31:5

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