Ezekiel 17:7

7. Another great eagle The king of Egypt.

This vine did bend her roots toward him Zedekiah began to look for nourishment to Egypt, although he had received his crown from Babylon (Ezekiel 17:5; Ezekiel 17:8; Ezekiel 17:13; Ezekiel 17:15). The figure is that this vinelike cedar, instead of striking its roots deep into its own native soil, where the Babylonian eagle had planted it, threw out its roots toward the Nile.

By the furrows R.V., “from the beds;” or as Cornill, “more than the beds in which it was planted.”