Ezekiel 17:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 17:14 : 14 So that the kingdom might be made low with no power of lifting itself up, but might keep his agreement to be his servants.
  • Prov 16:18-19 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall. 19 Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

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  • Ezek 17:7-10
    4 verses
    90%

    7 And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.

    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

    9 Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

    10 And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

  • Ezek 17:4-5
    2 verses
    87%

    4 Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.

    5 And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

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    22 This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;

    23 It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

    24 And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

  • 2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

  • 10 And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

  • Ps 80:8-11
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    79%

    8 You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

    9 You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

    10 The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

    11 It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

  • Hos 14:6-7
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    6 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

    7 His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

  • Ezek 31:4-7
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    4 It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

    5 In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.

    6 In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.

    7 So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.

  • 15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

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    10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

    11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.

    12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.

  • 2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

  • 21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    9 Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

  • Dan 4:11-12
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    11 And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

    12 Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

    17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

  • 5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • 1 And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

  • 8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

  • 6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

  • 31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.

  • 32 But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

  • Judg 9:12-13
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    12 Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us.

    13 But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?

  • 30 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.

  • Dan 4:20-21
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    75%

    20 The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;

    21 Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:

  • 6 They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

  • 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • 19 My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

  • 7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • 9 I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

  • 6 But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.