translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET study note

text: The verb occurs elsewhere in the OT only in Judg 14:12-19 , where Samson supplies a riddle.


text: The great eagle symbolizes Nebuchadnezzar ( 17:12 ).


text: In the parable Lebanon apparently refers to Jerusalem ( 17:12 ).


text: The phrase another great eagle refers to Pharaoh Hophra.


text: The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15 .


text: Heb “hand.” “Giving one’s hand” is a gesture of promise ( 2 Kgs 10:15 ).


text: The language is analogous to messianic imagery in Isa 11:1 ; Zech 3:8; 6:4 although the technical terminology is not the same.