He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
 

17:4 city of merchants. This city is Babylon, to which the current “highest branch”—i.e., King Jehoiachin—had been taken by Nebuchadnezzar (Ezekiel 17:3; see II Kings 24:15).

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