Ezechiël 17:6

Staten Vertaling

En het sproot uit, en werd tot een welig uitlopenden wijnstok, doch nederig van stam, ziende met zijn takken naar hem, dewijl zijn wortelen onder hem waren. Zo werd hij tot een wijnstok, die ranken voortbracht en scheuten uitwierp.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en het wies en werd een uitgebreide wijnstok, doch laag van stam; want zijne wijnranken bogen zich naar hem, en zijne wortels waren onder hem, en het werd een wijnstok, die ranken en scheuten kreeg.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
zij moest uitspruiten en een wijnstok worden, wijduitlopend maar laag van was; opdat zijn ranken zich tot den arend keren en zijn wortels onder hem blijven zouden. Zo werd zij een wijnstok, maakte takken, en schoot twijgen uit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it grew: Ezekiel 17:14, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 16:19

whose: The Jewish state had then no height of dominion; and Zedekiah was wholly dependent on Nebuchadnezzar.

Reciprocal: Psalms 44:2 - how thou didst afflict Psalms 80:8 - a vine Isaiah 18:5 - General Ezekiel 17:8 - soil Ezekiel 19:10 - like Ezekiel 29:15 - the basest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it grew,.... King Zedekiah reigned and prospered, and the kingdom flourished under him:

and became a spreading vine of low stature; not so flourishing as it had been heretofore, in former reigns; it did not rise up to a cedar, as it had been, but was like a vine, which, though flourishing, does not rise up high, but runs upon the ground, and is dependent on something else; so the king and kingdom of Judah, though in tolerable circumstances, yet were humble and dependent on the king of Babylon:

whose branches turned towards him; the eagle, Nebuchadnezzar, to whom the people of the Jews were tributary:

and the roots thereof were under him; they were rooted and settled in their own land, yet under the power, and at the dispose, of the Babylonish monarch:

so it became a vine; a flourishing kingdom in some measure, though attended with some degree of weakness and dependence as a vine:

and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs; increased in people and in riches; particularly the king had many children, so that there was a prospect of a succession, and of a more flourishing estate, and a continuance of it, Jeremiah 52:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Spreading - On the ground, not trained to a pole, that it might have no other prop but Nebuchadnezzar. As a vine it was less majestic than a cedar Ezekiel 17:3; but compare Psalms 80:10.

Whose branches ... - Rather, in order that her branches should turn unto him, and that her roots should be under him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 17:6. A spreading vine of low stature — The Jewish state having then no height of dominion, it must abide under the wings or branches of the Chaldean king.

Whose branches turned toward him, and the roots - under him — Zedekiah was wholly dependent on Nebuchadnezzar, both for his elevation to the throne, and his support on it.