Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 17:4

4 He cropt off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

Nebuchadnezzar surnamed the great.

As a Gardiner that crops off the goodliest cions, and carrieth them away to graft on some other stock.

Both the King of Iudah, now 18 years old, and the Nobles and Chief of the Land.

Into Babylon which was a City of mighty Trade, explained farther by being a City of Merchants, and peculiarly of Merchants that traded in sweet Spices and odoriferous gums.