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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 17:15 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Eze 17:15 |
Strong Concordance |
But he rebelled [04775] against him in sending [07971] his ambassadors [04397] into Egypt [04714], that they might give [05414] him horses [05483] and much [07227] people [05971]. Shall he prosper [06743]? shall he escape [04422] that doeth [06213] such things? or shall he break [06565] the covenant [01285], and be delivered [04422]? |
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King James |
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
he rebelled--God permitted this because of His wrath against Jerusalem (Kg2 24:20).
horses--in which Egypt abounded and which were forbidden to Israel to seek from Egypt, or indeed to "multiply" at all (Deu 17:16; Isa 31:1, Isa 31:3; compare Isa 36:9). DIODORUS SICULUS [1.45] says that the whole region from Thebes to Memphis was filled with royal stalls, so that twenty thousand chariots with two horses in each could be furnished for war.
Shall he prosper?--The third time this question is asked, with an indignant denial understood (Eze 17:9-10). Even the heathen believed that breakers of an oath would not "escape" punishment. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
He - Zedekiah. Shall he break - Can perjury be the way for deliverance? |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Sending his ambassadors into Egypt - Zedekiah must have sent his ambassadors into Egypt, between the sixth month of his sixth year, and the fifth month of his seventh year. Compare Eze 8:1, with Eze 20:1. - See Newcome. |
9 Say [0559] thou, Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Shall it prosper [06743]? shall he not pull up [05423] the roots [08328] thereof, and cut off [07082] the fruit [06529] thereof, that it wither [03001]? it shall wither [03001] in all the leaves [02964] of her spring [06780], even without great [01419] power [02220] or many [07227] people [05971] to pluck it up [05375] by the roots [08328] thereof.
10 Yea, behold, being planted [08362], shall it prosper [06743]? shall it not utterly [03001] wither [03001], when the east [06921] wind [07307] toucheth [05060] it? it shall wither [03001] in the furrows [06170] where it grew [06780].
9 How then wilt thou turn away [07725] the face [06440] of one [0259] captain [06346] of the least [06996] of my master's [0113] servants [05650], and put thy trust [0982] on Egypt [04714] for chariots [07393] and for horsemen [06571]?
3 Now the Egyptians [04714] are men [0120], and not God [0410]; and their horses [05483] flesh [01320], and not spirit [07307]. When the LORD [03068] shall stretch out [05186] his hand [03027], both he that helpeth [05826] shall fall [03782], and he that is holpen [05826] shall fall down [05307], and they all shall fail [03615] together [03162].
1 Woe [01945] to them that go down [03381] to Egypt [04714] for help [05833]; and stay [08172] on horses [05483], and trust [0982] in chariots [07393], because they are many [07227]; and in horsemen [06571], because they are very [03966] strong [06105]; but they look [08159] not unto the Holy One [06918] of Israel [03478], neither seek [01875] the LORD [03068]!
16 But he shall not multiply [07235] horses [05483] to himself, nor cause the people [05971] to return [07725] to Egypt [04714], to the end that he should multiply [07235] horses [05483]: forasmuch as the LORD [03068] hath said [0559] unto you, Ye shall henceforth [03254] return [07725] no more that way [01870].
20 For through the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] it came to pass in Jerusalem [03389] and Judah [03063], until he had cast them out [07993] from his presence [06440], that Zedekiah [06667] rebelled [04775] against the king [04428] of Babylon [0894].
1 And it came to pass in the seventh [07637] year [08141], in the fifth [02549] month, the tenth [06218] day of the month [02320], that certain [0582] of the elders [02205] of Israel [03478] came [0935] to enquire [01875] of the LORD [03068], and sat [03427] before [06440] me.
1 And it came to pass in the sixth [08345] year [08141], in the sixth [08345] month, in the fifth [02568] day of the month [02320], as I sat [03427] in mine house [01004], and the elders [02205] of Judah [03063] sat [03427] before [06440] me, that the hand [03027] of the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] fell [05307] there upon me.