Ezekiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

Ezekiel 20:49

20:49 Then I said, “O sovereign Lord! They are saying of me, ‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”

Ezekiel 24:19

24:19 Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”


tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

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