Eze 17:1-10 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Ezek 17:1-24: 17:1-24 This chapter uses a riddle , a form of metaphorical speech that both conceals and reveals. It is also a fable, a story that communicates a moral message about humans by transposing it into the world of plants and animals. The imaginative context creates a distance between the story and the reality and thus disarms the hearer’s defenses against an unpalatable message.

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‏ Ezekiel 17:1-10

Summary for Ezek 17:1-24: 17:1-24 ^a This chapter uses a riddle, a form of metaphorical speech that both conceals and reveals. It is also a fable, a story that communicates a moral message about humans by transposing it into the world of plants and animals. The imaginative context creates a distance between the story and the reality and thus disarms the hearer’s defenses against an unpalatable message.
Summary for Ezek 17:3-6: 17:3-6 ^b Babylon was the city filled with merchants (see 16:29 ^c).
Summary for Ezek 17:7-9: 17:7-9 ^d There was a second great eagle like the first, although not quite so glorious.

• The fate of the vine was predictable. In seeking to gain more, it would lose what it already had. The second eagle would not do anything for it, and the anger of the first eagle would be justly aroused.
17:10 ^e In Judah, the east wind blows from the desert and is therefore hot and dry.