15<\/strong>. Cf. 2Ki 24:20<\/span>. The king of Egypt referred to was Pharaoh Hophra, Jer 44:30<\/span>; Jer 37:5<\/span> seq<\/em>. The indignation of Ezekiel against Zedekiah arises greatly from his regarding the subjection of Jerusalem to Babylon as a thing determined by Jehovah. Hence the covenant broken by Zedekiah is not merely the covenant of the king of Babylon but that of Jehovah ( Eze 17:19<\/em><\/span>). The prophet follows Jeremiah. He had possibly read the words of the latter spoken in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, ch. Eze 27:9-17<\/span>, “serve the king of Babylon and live;” and probably he had heard his words to the same effect spoken in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, ch. 25. His advice to the exiles also was no doubt known to him, ch. Eze 29:4<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 15<\/span>. Sending his ambassadors into Egypt<\/B><\/I>] Zedekiah must have sent his ambassadors into Egypt, between the sixth<\/I> month of his sixth<\/I> year, and the fifth<\/I> month of his seventh<\/I> year. Compare Eze 8:1<\/span>, with Eze 20:1<\/span>.-See Newcome<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n But Zedekiah rebelled; <\/B>endeavoured to cast off the dominion of the conqueror Nebuchadnezzar, who had advanced him and obliged him. <\/P> Sending his ambassadors<\/B> is called bending his roots toward the second eagle. <\/P> Egypt; <\/B>an old bitter enemy, and an impotent and false friend. <\/P> That they might give him horses:<\/B> beside the perjury, here was a cursed trusting to an arm of flesh, of which Isa 31:1<\/span>. <\/P> Much people; <\/B>Zedekiah had not men to set upon his hired horses; Egypt must help here too. How sottishly doth this unhappy Zedekiah act to run himself on the charge and hazard of a new war, in which, whoever is the gainer, he and his are sure to be the losers! <\/P> Shall he prosper?<\/B> see Eze 17:9<\/span>,10<\/span>. Can it be likely vengeance should not overtake such ingratitude? Can perjury be the way for any mans deliverance? Can such notorious sinning end in any thing but misery? <\/P> <\/p>\n 15. he rebelled<\/B>God permittedthis because of His wrath against Jerusalem (2Ki24:20<\/span>). <\/P> horses<\/B>in which Egyptabounded and which were forbidden to Israel to seek from Egypt, orindeed to “multiply” at all (Deu 17:16<\/span>;Isa 31:1<\/span>; Isa 31:3<\/span>;compare Isa 36:9<\/span>). DIODORUSSICULUS [1.45] says thatthe whole region from Thebes to Memphis was filled with royal stalls,so that twenty thousand chariots with two horses in each could befurnished for war. <\/P> Shall he prosper?<\/B>Thethird time this question is asked, with an indignant denialunderstood (Eze 17:9<\/span>; Eze 17:10<\/span>).Even the heathen believed that breakers of an oath would not “escape”punishment.<\/P><\/p>\n But he rebelled against him<\/strong>,…. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon, broke the covenant he entered into, and violated his oath:<\/p>\n in sending his ambassadors into Egypt<\/strong>; to form an alliance with the king of it, and obtain help from him to break off the Babylonian yoke; this is signified by the vine “bending [its] roots, [and] shooting forth [its] branches [towards] another great eagle”, the king of Egypt,<\/p>\n Eze 17:7<\/span>;<\/p>\n that they might give him horses and much people<\/strong>; with both which Egypt abounded, 1Ki 10:28<\/span>; but in Judea there was a scarcity, as of horses, so of men, by means of the multitude of captives which the king of Babylon had carried away; wherefore Zedekiah sent to Egypt for both, for recruits of men; and for horses to form a cavalry, to free himself from the king of Babylon, and defend himself and people against him:<\/p>\n shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such [things]<\/strong>? that is guilty of breaking an express law of God, which forbids the kings of Israel multiplying horses, and sending to Egypt for them, De 17:16<\/span>; and placing confidence in an arm of flesh, Isa 31:1<\/span>; and of such base ingratitude to the king of Babylon, who had set him upon the throne, and put him in a comfortable and flourishing condition:<\/p>\n or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered<\/strong>? shall one guilty, as of the other crimes, so of breach of covenant, and of perjury, escape the vengeance of God and man? he shall not.<\/p>\n (15) Shall he escape that doeth such things?<\/strong>The faithlessness of Zedekiah and his court to his own sworn covenant was an act, in addition to all his other wickedness, especially abominable to God. The sanctity of an oath had always been most strongly insisted upon in Israelitish history. It must be remembered that even when, as in the case of the Gibeonites (Joshua , 9), the oath had been obtained by fraud, and centuries had passed since it was given, God yet sorely punished the land for its violation (2Sa. 21:1-2<\/span>); and in this case the king had been more than once Divinely warned through the prophet Jeremiah of the danger of his treachery. As Zedekiahs intrigues with Egypt were just now going on, it was particularly important that they should be exposed, and their result foretold to the captives who were yet trusting in the safety of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n 15<\/strong>. <\/strong> He rebelled against him <\/strong> See the account in 2 Kings 24<\/span>. The Egyptian king was Pharaoh Hophra (Jer 44:30<\/span>; Jer 37:5<\/span>.) <\/p>\n Egypt <\/strong> (Hebrews, Mitzraim<\/em>). The Tel-el-Amarna tablets show that 1400 B.C. Egypt was called Misri <\/em> (Assyr., Musri<\/em>). It is now known that the Babylonians in later times changed the form and why they did so ( Zeilschrift fur Assyria, <\/em> 4:268). The Bible word is derived from the most ancient form. The chief military strength of Egypt lay in its cavalry and chariot force (Exo 14:7<\/span>; 1Ki 10:28<\/span>; Isa 31:1<\/span>). The monuments and papyri abundantly sustain this proposition.<\/p>\n “But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.”<\/p>\n This verse hides a huge amount of intrigue between Jerusalem and Egypt. Who made the first contact we do not know, probably Egypt, seeking to foment trouble among the smaller states for their own benefit, and seeking assistance in their own plans against Assyria. But Zedekiah, saw his chance to break for freedom and ‘rebelled against the king of Babylon’ (2Ki 24:20<\/span>). This was contrary to Yahweh’s words through Jeremiah (Jer 27:12-15<\/span>). He sent to Egypt for assistance in the form of soldiers and horses.<\/p>\n We have independent confirmation of such intrigues in the Lachish letters, a collection of twenty one ostraca found in the ruins of Lachish. ‘Konyahu, the son of Elnathan, commander of the army, has gone down on his way to Egypt’.<\/p>\n “Will he prosper? Will he escape who does such things? Will he break the covenant and yet escape? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he will die.”<\/p>\n The rebellion, which was strictly against the revealed will of Yahweh through Jeremiah (Jer 27:12-15<\/span>), was doomed from the start. Egypt made a show of strength, and the siege on Jerusalem was lifted for a time (Jer 37:5<\/span>; Jer 37:11<\/span>), but they were no match for Nebuchadnezzar as Jeremiah had foretold. Here great emphasis is laid on Zedekiah’s failure to keep his oath and observe the terms of the treaty he had made with Nebuchadnezzar.<\/p>\n But the point is not so much that he broke the treaty, treaties made under duress were often being broken, but that he broke a treaty which had the approval of Yahweh. It was not only a covenant with Nebuchadnezzar, it was a covenant with Yahweh Himself (Eze 17:19<\/span>).<\/p>\n These words of Ezekiel would seem to have been given at the time when the rebellion was in process. And like Jeremiah he forecast only one end, defeat and humiliation, and resultant permanent exile in Babylon.<\/p>\n Eze 17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such [things]? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?<\/p>\n Ver. 15. But he rebelled against him.<\/strong> ] As Ottocarus, king of Bohemia, did against Rodolphus, the first emperor of Germany, by the instigation of his queen; and as Ladislaus, king of Hungary, did against Amurath, the Turkish emperor, by the encouragement of Capistranus, the Pope’s agent, to the very great reproach of the Christian religion.<\/p>\n he rebelled, &c. See 2Ki 24:20. 2Ch 36:13. <\/p>\n he rebelled: Eze 17:7, 2Ki 24:20, 2Ch 36:13, Jer 52:3 <\/p>\n in: Deu 17:16, Isa 30:1-4, Isa 31:1-3, Isa 36:6-9, Jer 37:5-7 <\/p>\n Shall he prosper: Eze 17:9, Deu 29:12-15, Jer 22:29, Jer 22:30 <\/p>\n shall he escape: Eze 17:18, Eze 21:25, Pro 19:5, Jer 32:4, Jer 34:3, Jer 38:18, Jer 38:23, Mat 23:33, Heb 2:3 <\/p>\n or shall: Psa 55:23 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 14:4 – they rebelled 2Ki 17:4 – king of Egypt 2Ki 18:24 – thy trust Isa 28:18 – your covenant Isa 36:5 – that Jer 2:18 – what hast Jer 2:37 – for the Lord Jer 25:35 – the shepherds Jer 27:3 – the messengers Jer 32:5 – though Jer 39:5 – gave judgment upon him Jer 42:19 – Go Eze 7:27 – king Eze 23:20 – General Eze 29:7 – they took Eze 29:16 – the confidence Rom 2:3 – that thou shalt 2Ti 3:3 – trucebreakers<\/p>\n Eze 17:15. Zedekiah thought he could get help from Egypt against the king of Babylon. He sent ambassadors into Egypt according to this verse, and the same is recorded in Jer 37:7 as a bit of history included in that prophetic hook.<\/p>\n Eze 17:15. But he rebelled in sending into Egypt, that they might give him horses Egypt was a country abounding in horses, of which there was great scarcity in Judea. This was not only a violation of his oath and covenant, but likewise a breach of that part of the Jewish law which forbade their king to fetch horses out of Egypt, or strengthen himself with the alliance of that nation. Shall he escape that doeth such things? Shall not the divine vengeance overtake such ingratitude and perfidy? Shall he break the covenant and be delivered? Can perjury and covenant- breaking be the way to any mans deliverance? Can such notorious sinning end in any thing but misery? From what is said on this occasion we learn, that an oath ought not to be violated though it was taken under unfavourable circumstances, and though the things to which a man bound himself by it were very disagreeable to him.<\/p>\n However, the vine rebelled against the eagle. Zedekiah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and sent to Egypt for arms and troops to resist the Babylonians. Pharaoh Hophra (Gr. Apries, 589-570 B.C.) is the second strong eagle in the riddle to which the vine sent out its roots and branches for sustenance, probably in 588 B.C. (Eze 17:7). If this prophecy is in chronological order, as seems likely, Ezekiel gave it between 592 (Eze 8:1) and 591 B.C. (Eze 20:1). This means that he predicted Zedekiah’s revolt about three years before it happened. For years the pro-Egyptian faction in Jerusalem had advocated seeking help from that direction. Obviously Zedekiah could not escape Nebuchadnezzar’s wrath since he had broken the covenant under which he served him, a covenant that he had sworn in God’s name (cf. Eze 5:7; 2Ch 36:13).<\/p>\n "When Zedekiah made his oath of allegiance to Nebuchadnezzar, the Lord’s name was invoked as a guarantor of the treaty (see 2Ch 36:13). Consequently when Zedekiah broke his oath to Nebuchadnezzar, he in effect broke a treaty with God." [Note: Chisholm, Handbook on . . ., p. 253.] <\/span><\/p>\n An oath was a sacred thing in the ancient Near East, and even oaths made by fraud were normally honored (cf. Joshua 9; 2Sa 21:1-2). The Lord swore that Zedekiah would die in Babylon for breaking his covenant with Nebuchadnezzar (cf. Eze 17:19).<\/p>\n "After judgment became inevitable, God’s will for Judah was submission to their foreign conquerors as a sign of their submission to him (Jer 38:17-23)." [Note: Cooper, p. 182.] <\/span><\/p>\n But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such [things]? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 15. Cf. 2Ki 24:20. 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