Ezekiel 17:23

The planted shoot will grow into a noble cedar where birds of every kind find shelter, picturing the Messiah's flourishing, all-embracing kingdom. God's kingdom gives refuge to the nations.

Cross-references · 22

• Matt 13:32Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
• Ezek 31:6All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
• Isa 2:2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
• John 15:5–8I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
• Hos 14:7They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
• Dan 4:21–23whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—
• John 12:24Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
• Dan 4:10–14In these visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this come to pass: There was a tree in the midst of the land, and its height was great.
• Isa 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
• Ps 92:12–13The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
• Ps 22:27–30All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
• Isa 11:6–10The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
• Col 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
• Acts 10:11–12He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
• Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
• Ps 72:8–11May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
• Luke 14:21–23The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
• Isa 60:4–12Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
• Isa 49:18Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
• Matt 13:47–48Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

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