9<\/strong>. Threat of punishment because of his treachery. The vine shall be pulled up and utterly withered Zedekiah’s monarchy shall be taken away before the king of Babylon.<\/p>\n shall he not pull up<\/em> ] The subject is most naturally the king of Babylon, who planted it; the words might be used in the sense of the pass.<\/em>: shall it not be pulled up?<\/p>\n it shall wither her spring<\/em> ] As R.V., all her fresh springing leaves shall wither.<\/p>\n even without great power<\/em> ] It will be a light thing for the king of Babylon to pluck up this vine by the roots. Both the words and construction are peculiar; cf. Eze 17:17<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n Her spring – <\/B>Rather, her growth.<\/P> Even without … – <\/B>Translate; and not with great power or with much people is it to be raised up from its roots again.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 9<\/span>. Shall it prosper?<\/B><\/I>] Shall Zedekiah succeed in casting off the yoke of the king of Babylon, to whom he had sworn<\/I> fealty?<\/P> <\/P> Shall he not pull up the roots<\/B><\/I>] Nebuchadnezzar will come and dethrone him.<\/P> <\/P> And cut off the fruit<\/B><\/I>] The children of Zedekiah.<\/P> <\/P> The leaves<\/B><\/I>] All the nobles; all shall perish with Zedekiah.<\/P> <\/p>\n Say thou; <\/B>tell them what will be the issue of all this, and tell it to them in my name. <\/P> Shall it prosper?<\/B> this vine, shall Zedekiah aud his people thrive by this? it is a question that must be resolved negatively, and with vehemency. <\/P> Shall he, <\/B>Nebuchadnezzar, not pull up, utterly overthrow this kingdom which he had set up, destroy the king thereof? <\/P> Cut off the fruit; <\/B>put to the sword and slay the children of Zedekiah and of the nobles. <\/P> Wither; <\/B>never be in possibility of springing, so much is threatened by the withering of the branches. <\/P> All the leaves of her spring; <\/B>all the promising hope they had shall vanish as the hope of a tree vanisheth, when all its buds and leaves wither in its spring. <\/P> Without great power; <\/B>the king of Babylon shall do this easily, and never need to employ all his power and people to do this, utterly to root up this vine. <\/P> <\/p>\n 9. Shall it prosper?<\/B>Could itbe that gratuitous treason should prosper? God will not allow it.”It,” that is, the vine. <\/P> he . . . pull up<\/B>thatis, the first eagle, or Nebuchadnezzar. <\/P> in all . . . leaves of herspring<\/B>that is, all its springing (sprouting) leaves. <\/P> without great power ormany<\/B>It shall not need all the forces of Babylon to destroy it;a small division of the army will suffice because God will deliver itinto Nebuchadnezzar’s hand (Jer37:10<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n Say thou, thus saith the Lord God<\/strong>,…. Tell Zedekiah and his people, in the name of the Lord, what will be the issue of his ingratitude and treachery to the king of Babylon, and his vain confidence in the king of Egypt:<\/p>\n shall it prosper<\/strong>? the vine, the kingdom of Judah, and Zedekiah the king of it; can it be thought that prosperity will attend such conduct as this? was is it ever known that persons guilty of such vices ever succeeded?<\/p>\n shall he not pull up the roots thereof<\/strong>; the first eagle, Nebuchadnezzar, being provoked by the rebellion of the king of Judah and his people; will he not come against them, and utterly destroy them, and root them up from being a people and a nation?<\/p>\n and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither<\/strong>? the sons of the king, and of the nobles, and people of the land; so that the kingdom shall be ruined, and no hope left of its ever being restored again; which is the case of a vine when withered:<\/p>\n it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring<\/strong>; whereas it had been a springtime with this vine, under the influence of the king of Babylon, its leaves were green and flourishing; but now should wither, not as leaves do in autumn, which is to be expected, but in spring, which must be fatal; signifying, that in the midst of their prosperity, and when there was the greatest hope and expectation of a continuance and increase of it, utter ruin should come upon them:<\/p>\n even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof<\/strong>; signifying with what ease the king of Babylon would take Jerusalem, and the land of Judea, its king and its princes, and utterly destroy them; he would have no need of a large army, or to employ all his forces, a few, were sufficient to do it; even as it does not require many hands to pluck up, a vine by the roots, a single person is equal to it.<\/p>\n Here God announces that this vine could not flourish any longer and bring forth fruit; for it had been planted to flourish under the shadow of an eagle, and it had removed itself away. Nothing therefore remains, than that the former eagle should avenge the injury committed against it. This is the meaning of the passage: hence he says, Shall it prosper? Shall not the eagle tear up its roots, and cut off its fruit? Ezekiel assumes this principle, that the vine could not be otherwise preserved than by the power and aid of the eagle which had planted it; for when it passed away from that eagle to another, the Prophet says that the end of the ungrateful vine was at hand; all the leaves of its branches shall wither, and so be dried up, and that not in, a mighty branch, nor in much people. It is certain that Nebuchadnezzar was accompanied with a great army when he came down upon Judea. But the Prophet means, even if Nebuchadnezzar had only brought with him a small band, yet Zedekiah could not remain king, since destruction awaited him through perfidy and revolt, as will afterwards be said. The Prophet often speaks by concession, as if he had said that, by a singe blast, Zedekiah and all the people would wither away, since he could not remain in safety unless he drew sap from his own root; but he had removed his root elsewhere, and so Ezekiel pronounces that he must immediately wither away. It was not then in the power of much people to tear it from its own roots; for Zedekiah had purposely cut off his own roots, when, through his own levity, he had transferred himself to the king of Egypt Behold, says he, he had been planted; but should he have good success? as if he had said, it is vain for Zedekiah to hope for safety from him, whom his own perfidy prevented from befriending him; and therefore the comparison of an east wind is added : since then the east wind has struck it, will it not wither and decay, even upon the furrows of its branches? that is, although it has furrows whence it may expect perpetual moisture; for Egypt was, as we have said, artificially watered; and the Prophet describes Zedekiah’s state just as if the king of Egypt were nourishing him by a stream of water: upon his beds, or furrows, will he wither when the east wind shall strike it. We know that the east wind destroys the fruits in that region, and so it is often mentioned in a bad sense. It now follows — <\/p>\n (9) Of her spring.<\/strong>Our translators probably intended by this word, as they evidently did in Psa. 65:10<\/span>, her springing forth, her growth; but it would be better now to substitute the word growth,<\/em><\/p>\n Pluck it up by the roots.<\/strong>The word here is a different one from the pull up in the earlier part of the verse, and has rather the sense of raise up from the roots. The whole clause would be better translated, not even <\/em>with great power and many people is it to be raised up from its roots again. The meaning is explained in Eze. 17:17<\/span>, that the strength of Pharaoh would be utterly insufficient to restore the people whom God had blighted.<\/p>\n 9<\/strong>. <\/strong> Shall it prosper <\/strong> Such ingratitude and perjury (Eze 17:13<\/span>) will bring upon it not only the loss of its fruit, but of its life. It shall be plucked up by the roots. It shall wither<\/strong>, etc. Rather, all her fresh springing leaves shall wither; neither with great power and many people shall any be able to lift it up again out of the roots thereof. <\/em> Hitzig, Keil.<\/p>\n “You must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Will it prosper? Will he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit that it may wither, that all its fresh springing leaves may wither, even without great power and many people to pluck it up by its roots? Yes, behold, being planted will it prosper? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.’ ”<\/p>\n Yahweh’s question is as to whether or not Nebuchadnezzar will prevent their hopes, and His answer is ‘yes’. He will pull up their roots (compare Eze 17:7<\/span>), and cut off their fruit so that its fresh springing leaves wither in the beds (of its plantation – Eze 17:7<\/span>) where it grew. And he will do it without needing great power or a large army. He will come like the hot east wind from the desert (compare Eze 19:12<\/span>; Job 27:21<\/span>; Isa 27:8<\/span>; Hos 13:15<\/span>) drying up all in front of him.<\/p>\n Eze 17:9<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>It shall wither, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> It shall altogether wither; nor shall the<\/em> mighty arm or great company cause it not to be plucked up by the roots. <\/em>It is very plain from the 17th verse, that by the mighty arm, <\/em>&c. is meant the king of Egypt, whose assistance the Lord foretels should be useless to protect Zedekiah from the Chaldeans, who are in the next verse well compared to a parching wind, which blasts the fruits of the earth, and makes every thing look naked and bare. See Houbigant: who instead of east wind<\/em> in Eze 17:10<\/span> reads vehement wind; <\/em>and instead of furrowsorders <\/em>or rows.<\/em> <\/p>\n Eze 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.<\/p>\n Ver. 9. Shall it prosper?<\/strong> ] How should it? say. “Hath ever any waxed fierce against God (or his substitute) and prospered?” Job 9:4 Is perfidy and perjury the right way to prosperity? I trow not. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shall he not pull up?<\/strong> ] He that is the great eagle, Eze 17:3 who would be upon them before they were aware. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Without great power, or many people,<\/strong> ] i.e., <\/em> For any great need there shall be of them, since the work shall be done with little ado. If the Chaldeans were but a few, and they all wounded men, they should yet rise up and burn this city, saith Jeremiah. See 2Ch 24:23-24<\/span> . It is no hard matter, we know, to pluck up a vine, root and branch; God telleth us in the next verse that he can do it with a wind – with a wet finger, as we say.<\/p>\n Shall it prosper? &c. This is Jehovah’s sentence on the perfidy of Zedekiah in breaking his oath to Nebuchadnezzar. Compare Eze 17:13 and the Structure (S1, S2, S3). Those who interpret this enigma of Zedekiah’s daughters are hereby warned that their interpretation shall not prosper. See notes on Eze 17:22 and Eze 17:24. <\/p>\n spring = sproutings. <\/p>\n Shall it: Shall he succeed in casting off the yoke of the king of Babylon, to whom he had sworn fealty? Eze 17:10, Eze 17:15-17, Num 14:41, 2Ch 13:12, 2Ch 20:20, Isa 8:9, Isa 8:10, Isa 30:1-7, Isa 31:1-3, Jer 32:5 <\/p>\n shall he: He shall come and dethrone him, and carry him captive. 2Ki 25:4-7, Jer 21:4-7, Jer 24:8-10, Jer 29:4-7, Jer 52:7-11 <\/p>\n the fruit: The children of Zedekiah. <\/p>\n even: Jer 37:10 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Isa 1:30 – ye shall be Dan 11:27 – but Joh 15:6 – he<\/p>\n Eze 17:9. The central idea in this verse is similar to the preceding one. In spite of the many natural resources of Pharaoh’s kingdom, that monarch would not be able to save Judah from her overthrow when God decreed it to be otherwise.<\/p>\n Eze 17:9-10. Say Tell them what shall be the issue of all this, and tell it to them in my name. Shall it prosper? Can it be that such breach of faith and such ingratitude should prosper? No, it cannot be: God will never suffer it. Zedekiah, besides the obligation of an oath, was bound to the king of Babylon by the ties of gratitude, as he owed all he possessed to him. Shall he not pull up the roots thereof? Shall not Nebuchadnezzar, in return for this perfidiousness, destroy him and his kingdom? see 2Ki 25:7. And cut off the fruit thereof Put his children and those of his nobles to the sword? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring It shall wholly wither: not only the old branch shall wither, but its young shoots also: and all the promising hopes they had shall vanish: even without great power or many people God shall be on the side of the Chaldeans, and he does not need great power or many people to effect his purpose. He can as easily overturn a sinful king and kingdom as a man can root up a tree that cumbers the ground. The king of Babylon, therefore, God being with him, shall easily subdue the land of Judah, and shall not need a large human force to assist him. Yea, shall it not utterly wither when the east wind toucheth it? Here the prophet compares the Chaldean army, which should come against Judea, to a parching wind that blasts the fruits of the earth, withers the leaves of the trees, and makes every thing look naked and bare.<\/p>\n 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall {h} he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.<\/p>\n (h) Shall not Nebuchadnezzar destroy it?<\/p>\n The Lord rhetorically asked if the owner of such a vine would not pull it out of its soil and cause it to wither and become unfruitful. Nothing that anyone could do could cause such a vine to recover its original health and fruitfulness after such treatment (cf. Eze 17:22-24). Even though its roots were still in the ground it would not thrive. The hot east wind would easily wither it where it grew (cf. Eze 19:12; Job 27:21; Isa 27:8; Hos 13:15).<\/p>\n Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. 9. 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