A moment in scripture
Ezekiel 17:3
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And say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
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The surrounding passage
- Ezekiel 17:1
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
- Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
- Ezekiel 17:4
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
- Ezekiel 17:5
He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.