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Ezekiel 17:20

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 17:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The words receive a special significance as being identical with those which Ezekiel had uttered in , 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 , in like manner, reproduces , .

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