Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 17:17

17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons.

Let his army be made up of ever so many well disciplined Souldiers, if as many as the Egyptian can vainly promise, or the Jews more vainly hope.

Possibly it may refer to the multitudes, which usually attended the march of armies, or else tis a doubling the thing in doubled words.

If▪ Zedekiah be the person, as our version carrieth it, it foretells the unprofitableness of the Egyptian army, that shall not do him any kindness, if Nebuchadnezzar be intended, as the version which renders the Hebr. particle (against) then it foretells the little hurt that the Egyptians shall do to Nebuchadnezzar.

When Nebuchadnezzar shall with so much speed, and skill cast up Forts and build Mounts, wooden Castles to annoy Ierusalem, secure his own Forces, and terrifie the Egyptian King from the difficulty of raising the siege, which could not be done without expence of much blood.

Of the besieged in Ierusalem, and of the Egyptians, if they attempt to raise the siege, this sense it bears in the French Version.

Marginal references: Jer. 52.4. chap. 4.2.