Ezekiel 17:5

World English Bible (2000)

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

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  • Isa 44:4 : 4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
  • Deut 8:7-9 : 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
  • 2 Kgs 24:17 : 17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
  • Isa 15:7 : 7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
  • Jer 37:1 : 1 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
  • Ezek 17:13 : 13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
  • Ezek 19:11-12 : 11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. 12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.

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  • Ezek 17:6-10
    5 verses
    87%

    6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

    7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

    8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    9 Say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.

    10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.

  • 4 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

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    22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain:

    23 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of its branches shall they dwell.

    24 All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.

  • Ps 80:8-11
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    8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

    9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

    10 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

    11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

  • Isa 5:1-2
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    1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

    2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

  • 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Ezek 31:4-7
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    4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

    5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

    6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.

    7 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

  • 15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

  • 6 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

  • 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

    9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

  • 19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

  • 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

  • Hos 14:5-7
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    5 I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

    6 His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

    7 Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

  • 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

  • 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • 16 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

  • 5 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [its fruit].

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    3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.

    17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

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

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    10 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

    11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

  • Isa 17:10-11
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    10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

    11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

  • 9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

  • 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

  • 16 Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

  • 15 I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.

  • 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

  • 32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

  • 4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.