An explanation of the allegory is now added. The figure being dropped, God shows what He had until now set forth enigmatically. We said the object …

And has taken of the king's seed One of the royal family, signified by the seed of the land, (Ezekiel 17:5). …

The parable is explained, and the particulars of the history of the Jewish nation at that time may be traced. Zedekiah had been ungrateful to his b…