Say now to the rebellious house,.... It had been a rebellious house to God, and to his prophets, before; see Eze 2:5 andSee Gill on "Eze 2:5"; and now, besides this was rebellious to the king of Babylon, to whom they were in some measure subject, Eze 17:15;know ye not what these [things mean]?
the riddle and parable concerning the two eagles and the vine; suggesting that they must be very inattentive, and very stupid, if they did not know the meaning of them; for though the things intended were delivered in an enigmatical and parabolical way, yet they were easily to be understood by all that know the affairs of the Jewish nation; being things that were lately transacted there, and were obvious to everyone's view; but if they were so stupid and blockish as not to understand them, the prophet had the following order, to explain them to them:tell [them], behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem; so that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is meant by the first "eagle", and the land of Judea, and particularly Jerusalem, by Lebanon, it came unto, Eze 17:3.