OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 17:7

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“‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the ground where it was planted, that he might water it.

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Verse 7. Eagle. The king of Egypt, ( Challoner.) Vaphres, who came at the request of Sedecias, to oppose the Chaldeans, but was routed; and they returned to the siege of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 37:4.—Plantation, as the waters of the Nile were conducted to different parts by ditches. Deuteronomy 11:10.

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