John Trapp on Ezekiel 17:7

Ver. 7. There was alſo another great Eagle] ſc. Pharaoh, another potent Monarch; why called an Eagle, ſee on ver. 3.

And behold this vine did bend her roots toward him] Which was the worſt chare for her ſelf that ever ſhe did. The Devil of Diſcontent put her upon this unhappy project: whereby, inſtead of mending her ſelf, ſhe ſoon marr'd all. So true is that of Solomon, Wiſdom is better then weapons of war: but one ſinner deſtroyeth much good, Eccleſ. 9.18. Zedekiah little thought once ever to have been a King. Nebuchadnezzar made him ſo, when as he might as well have refuſed him, for the rebellions of his two Predeceſſours. He had alſo dealt nobly with him, though his vaſſal, and would have defended him againſt any adverſe power, &c. ſo that he had no reaſon at all to rebel, but that he was infatuated and beſotted by Ambition and Avarice, which Plutarch finely and fitly calleth [non-Latin text not transcribed], diſeaſes natural to Potentates.