“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.”
A second great eagle appears with great wings and abundant plumage, representing Egypt and its renewed overtures toward Judah during the reign of Zedekiah. Egypt's persistent presence as a rival imperial power in the region created constant temptation for Judah to break its Babylonian vassalage. The emergence of the second eagle introduces the central theological problem: Judah's division of loyalty between rival empires rather than single-minded allegiance to God's will.
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