Ezekiel 17:12-16
Read Ezekiel 17 in full →12“Say now to the arebellious house, ‘Do you not bknow what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Behold, the cking of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes, and brought them to him in Babylon. 13‘He took one of the royal aseed and cut a covenant with him and brought him under boath. He also took away the cdominant one of the land, 14that the kingdom might 1,abecome lowly, not lifting itself up, but keeping his covenant that it might continue. 15‘But he arebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt that they might give him horses and many 1troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things bescape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape? 16‘As I live,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘Surely in the 1country of the king who made him king, whose oath he adespised and whose covenant he broke, 2,bin Babylon he shall die.