Ezekiel 17:2 Cross References - ISV

² “Son of Man, compose a riddle and relate a parable to Israel’s house.

⁸ “Once upon a time the trees went out to consecrate a king for themselves. “So they told the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’ ⁹ But the olive tree asked them, ‘Should I stop producing my rich oils by which both God and men are honored and go take dominion over trees?’ ¹⁰ “So the trees told the fig tree, ‘Hey you! Come and reign over us!’ ¹¹ But the fig tree asked them, ‘Should I leave my sweet, good fruit and go take dominion over trees?’ ¹² “So the trees told the grape vine, ‘Hey you! Come and reign over us!’ ¹³ But the grape vine asked them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go take dominion over trees?’ ¹⁴ “So all the trees told the bramble bush, ‘Hey you! Come and reign over us!’ ¹⁵ Then the bramble bush replied to the trees, ‘If you really are consecrating me to rule you, come and put your confidence in my shade; but if not, may fire spring out from the bramble bush and burn up the cedars of Lebanon…’

¹² “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson told them. “If you can solve it during this week-long festival, I’ll give you 30 linen garments and 30 formal garments. ¹³ But if you don’t solve it, then you’ll give me 30 linen garments and 30 formal garments.”
“Tell us your riddle and we’ll solve it,” they responded.
¹⁴ So he told them: From the eater came something edible; from the strong something sweet.
For three days they couldn’t solve the riddle.
¹⁵ The next day, they told Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband to explain the riddle or we’ll set fire to your father’s house—with you in it! You’ve invited us here to make us paupers, haven’t you?”
¹⁶ So Samson’s wife cried in front of him and accused him, “You only hate me. You don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to my relatives, but you haven’t told the solution to me.”
Samson responded, “Look, I haven’t told my parents, either. Why should I tell you?”
¹⁷ So she kept on crying in front of him for the entire seven days of the wedding party. On the seventh day he told the solution to her because she nagged him, and then she told the solution to the riddle to her relatives.
¹⁸ Then the men of the city answered him just before sunset on the seventh day: “What’s sweeter than honey? What’s stronger than lions?”
Samson responded, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer you wouldn’t have solved my riddle.”
¹⁹ Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed 30 men, took their belongings, and gave the garments to those who had told him the solution to the riddle. He remained furious, left for his father’s house,

¹ so the LORD sent Nathan to David.
Nathan’s RebukeNathan approached David and said, “There are two men in the city. One is rich and one is poor. ² The rich man has many flocks and herds, ³ but the poor man had nothing except for one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It used to share his food and drink from his own cup. It even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him. ⁴ A traveler arrived to visit the rich man. Because he was unwilling to take an animal from one of his own flocks or herds to prepare for the guest who had come to visit him, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to visit him.”

⁴⁹ Ezekiel’s Complaint to GodThen I said, “O Lord GOD! They’re saying about me, ‘Isn’t he one to propound parables?’”

³ So compose a parable for the rebellious house. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Prepare your pot for boiling! Set it in place. Fill it up with water, too.

¹⁰ I spoke to the prophets, giving revelation after revelation, and employing parables in the prophetic writings.

¹³ That’s why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they look but don’t see, and they listen but don’t hear or understand.’
¹⁴ “With them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says: ‘You will listen and listen but never understand. You will look and look but never comprehend,

³⁵ This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet when he said, “I will open my mouth to speak in parables. I will declare what has been hidden since the creation of the world.”

³³ Why Jesus Used Parables
With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand. ³⁴ He did not tell them anything without using a parable, though he explained everything to his disciples in private.

¹² Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.