Ezekiel 17:12

God explains that the king of Babylon took Jerusalem's king and princes into exile. The parable describes real, recent history.

Cross-references · 23

• Ezek 24:19And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
• Ezek 17:3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
• Ezek 1:2In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
• Ezek 3:9As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
• Matt 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
• Matt 16:11How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
• Josh 4:6That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
• Acts 8:30And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
• Matt 15:16–17And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
• Mark 4:13And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
• Luke 9:45But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
• Ezek 2:8But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
• Jer 22:24–28As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
• Isa 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Ezek 12:9–11Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
• 2 Chr 36:9–10Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Deut 6:20And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
• Josh 4:21And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
• Jer 52:31–34And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
• Ezek 2:3–5And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
• Isa 39:7And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
• 2 Kgs 24:10–16At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
• Exod 12:26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

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