Ezekiel 12:13

12:13 But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans ¹  (but he will not see it), ²  and there he will die. ³ 

Ezekiel 14:8

14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword ⁴  and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 17:7

17:7 “‘There was another great eagle ⁵ 

with broad wings and thick plumage.

Now this vine twisted its roots toward him

and sent its branches toward him

to be watered from the soil where it was planted.

---

¹ tn Or “Babylonians” (NCV, NLT).

sn The Chaldeans were a group of people in the country south of Babylon from which Nebuchadnezzar came. The Chaldean dynasty his father established became the name by which the Babylonians are regularly referred to in the book of Jeremiah, while Jeremiah’s contemporary, Ezekiel, uses both terms.

² sn He will not see it. This prediction was fulfilled in 2 Kgs 25:7 and Jer 52:11, which recount how Zedekiah was blinded before being deported to Babylon.

³ sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).

⁴ tn Heb “proverbs.”

⁵ sn The phrase another great eagle refers to Pharaoh Hophra.