another great eagle.
“Another,” aḥer, is the plausible reading of the Septuagint instead of
the Masoretic eḥad, “one.” The second eagle is the Egyptian Pharaoh. The
vine wrapping its roots around him indicates Zedekiah’s seeking an alliance
with Egypt. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W.
Norton & Company, 2019], 2:1096)
