Ezekiel 17:20 - Exposition

The words receive a special significance as being identical with those which Ezekiel had uttered in Ezekiel 12:13 , with the addition that the sin against Nebuchadnezzar as the vicegerent of Jehovah, was a sin against Jehovah himself as the God of faithfulness and truth. There, in Babylon, the real character of his sin should be brought home to the conscience of the blind and captive king. What follows in Ezekiel 12:21 , in like manner, reproduces Ezekiel 12:14 , Ezekiel 12:15 .