Ezekiel 17:13-16

17:13 He took one from the royal family, 1  made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. 2  He then took the leaders of the land 17:14 so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand. 17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family 3  rebelled against the king of Babylon 4  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city 5  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

1 tn Or “descendants”; Heb “seed” (cf. v. 5).

2 tn Heb “caused him to enter into an oath.”

3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

4 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “place.”