Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ezekiel 17:14
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so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.
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That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
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that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
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Ezekiel 17
12 “Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.
13 He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
14 so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.
15 But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’
16 ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
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