This is explained in Ezekiel 17:12 of "the king of Babylon." Nebuchadnezzar is compared to an eagle also in Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22;He has great and long wings, because he has already flown victoriously over wide-spread lands; and he is "full of feathers which had divers colours," because he had embraced in his empire a variety of nations differing in languages, manners, and customs.because Lebanon is the home of the cedar, and the royal palace in Jerusalem was so rich in cedar as to be called "the house of the forest of Lebanon