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upon EZEKTEL. 123
Ver. j. oAn Eagle with great Wing*.'] That is, Chapter
the King of "Babylon: See Ver. 12. Conquerors XV II.
are elfewhere reprefented by Eagle's, who are L/*v*~N^
Birds of Prey, and remarkable for their Swirtnefs. Ver. 3.
See T)euL xx^iii. 49. Jer. iv. 13. Hof. viii. 1.
Ibid. Lom~ wing\t.~] The LXX and other Inter-
preters trap (lite the Word from the Chaldee Seufe
of it, Of a great fize : to avoid the Repetition of
the fame Senfe over again.
Ibid. Came to Lebanon, and croft off the higheft
'Branch of the Cedar .] i. e. Invaded Judea, or inverted
Jerufalem and took King Jehoiakin Cap-
tive : See Ver. 1 2. and compare Jer. xxii. 23.
Ver. 4. oAnd carried it into a Land of Traffich"} Ver. 4.
'Babylon and the Countrey about it, being the Seat
of an Univerfal Monarchy, muft needs have been
a place of great Trading. Strabo takes notice,
that the Merchants who travelled by Land to 'Babylon,
went thro' the Countrey of the ^Arabians
called Scenita : lib. xvi. p. 747. and Veflels ofgreat
Burden came up to the Walls of it from the Terfian
Gulph up the River Euphrates. See Tliny's Nat.
Hifi. /.vi. c. 26.
Ver. 5. He took alfo of the Seed of the LandS] Ver. 5.
Of the King's Seed, as it is explained Ver. 13. /'. e.
Zedekiah.
Ibid. aAnd planted it in a fruitful field, he pla-
ced it by great Waters, andfet it as a Willow Tree'.]
Judea was a fruitful Countrey, and well watered,
See T>eut. viii. 7. where Zedekiah flourifhed as a
Willow Tree that thriveth beft in a moift Ground.
See Ifa. xliv. 4.
Ver. 6. cAnd it grew and became a fpreading Ver. 6.
Vine of low Stature, whofe branches turned to-
R 2 ward