Spreading - On the ground, not trained to a pole, so that it might have no other prop but Nebuchadnezzar. As a vine it was less majestic tha…

A spreading vine of low stature.—Had Zedekiah been faithful to his oath and allegiance to Nebuchadnezzar, and to his higher allegiance to …

After Ezekiel has narrated that Jehoiacin was carried away with his counselors and the choicest of all the people, and was so deprived of his nativ…

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

and became…

Mighty conquerors are aptly likened to birds or beasts of prey, but their destructive pa ions are overruled to advance God's designs. Those who dep…