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 24:19The people said to me, Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
• Ezek 17:3and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.
• Ezek 1:2In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
• Ezek 3:9I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
• Matt 13:51Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
• Matt 16:11How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Josh 4:6that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
• Acts 8:30Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
• Matt 15:16–17So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
• Mark 4:13He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
• Luke 9:45But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
• Ezek 2:8But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”
• Jer 22:24–28“As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you from there;
• Isa 1:2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Ezek 12:9–11“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
• 2 Chr 36:9–10Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
• Deut 6:20When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
• Josh 4:21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
• Jer 52:31–34In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison;
• Ezek 2:3–5He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
• Isa 39:7‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”
• 2 Kgs 24:10–16At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
• Exod 12:26It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

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