John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me." — Ezekiel 17:20 (ASV)
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my
snare (See Gill on Ezekiel 12:13); where the same words are used, and of the same person:
and I will bring him to Babylon ;
though, as it is said in the place referred to, he should not see it, his eyes being put out before he was
brought thither:
and I will plead with him there for his trespass that he has
trespassed against me ;
for though it was breaking covenant and oath with a Heathen prince, yet it was a trespass against God, in
whose name they were made; and his being laid in prison at Babylon, and kept there to the time of his death,
was the Lord's pleading with him, and judging of him; it was a reproof for his sins, and a condemnation of
him and them.