Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 17:18

18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

This verse gives us the reason of this unhappy enterprise, which is summed up in wilful, presumptuous, and most unparallel'd perjury.

Zedekiah.

A solemn confirming the oath, or covenant, and imployes the voluntary act of Zedekiah in swearing, which makes the perjury so much the fouler.

Too bad to be named, and most unbecoming any one that was a beneficiary, and had so much from the bounty of one, that was not obliged to do any thing for him.