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Ezekiel 17:4
4He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders.
Ezekiel 17:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
- New International Version (NIV)he broke off its topmost shoot and carried it away to a land of merchants, where he planted it in a city of traders.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He cropped off its topmost young twig And carried it to a land of trade; He set it in a city of merchants.
Context of Ezekiel 17:4
2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel, 3and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings, long-pinioned, full of feathers, which was of divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar. He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders. 5And he took of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, he set it as a willow tree. 6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, so that its branches should turn toward him, and the roots thereof be under him; and it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Read all of Ezekiel 17Ezekiel 17:4 word by word
אֵ֛ת רֹ֥אשׁ יְנִֽיקוֹתָ֖יו קָטָ֑ף וַיְבִיאֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן בְּעִ֥יר רֹכְלִ֖ים שָׂמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Ezekiel 17:4
- Isaiah 43:14Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
- Isaiah 47:15Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, they that trafficked with thee from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his own quarter; there is none to save thee.
- Jeremiah 51:13Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy rapacity.
- Revelation 18:3because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the fury of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have been enriched through the might of her luxury.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 17:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4The top of his young twigs - The princes of Judah. A land of traffic - Chaldea. A city of merchants - Babylon; for which this city was the most celebrated of all the cities of the east. Its situation procured it innumerable advantages; its two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Persian Gulf, gave it communication with the richest and the most distant nations.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4A land of traffick - The land of Babylon.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6Babylon was the city filled with merchants (see Ezekiel 16:29).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. land of traffic ... merchants--Babylon (2Ki 24:15, 16), famous for its transport traffic on the Tigris and Euphrates. Also, by its connection with the Persian Gulf, it carried on much commerce with India.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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