Ezekiel 17:12 Cross References - Rotherham

¹² Say, I pray thee, unto the perverse house, Know ye not what these things are? Say thou, Lo! the King of Babylon entered Jerusalem, And took her king and her princes, And brought them unto him in Babylon;

²⁶ and it shall come to pass, that your sons shall say unto you,––What is this your service?

²⁰ When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying,––What mean the testimonies, and the statutes and the regulations, which Yahweh our God commanded you?

⁶ that this may be a sign in your midst,––for your sons will ask in time to come, saying, What mean these stones to you?

²¹ Then spake he unto the sons of Israel, saying,––When your sons shall ask, in time to come, of their fathers, saying,––What mean these stones?

¹⁰ At that time, came up the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem,––and the city came into the siege. ¹¹ And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants were about to besiege it. ¹² Then came out Jehoiachin king of Judah, unto the king of Babylon, he and his mother, and his servants, and his generals, and his courtiers,––and the king of Babylon took him, in the eighth year of his reign. ¹³ And he carried forth from thence, all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king,––and he cut off all the fittings of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, according to all that, Yahweh, had spoken. ¹⁴ And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the generals, and all the mighty men of valour, ten thousand becoming captives, and all the artificers and the smiths,––none remained save the poorest of the people of the land. ¹⁵ And he carried away captive Jehoiachin, to Babylon,––and, the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his courtiers, and the nobles of the land, took he away captive, from Jerusalem to Babylon. ¹⁶ And, all the men of might––seven thousand, and artificers and smiths––a thousand, all who were valiant and ready to make war, the king of Babylon brought them captive to Babylon.

⁹ Eight years old, was Jehoiachin when he began to reign, and, three months and ten days, reigned he in Jerusalem, and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh; ¹⁰ and, when the year came round, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and carried him to Babylon, with the precious utensils of the house of Yahweh,––and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

² Hear, O heavens, And give ear, O earth, for, Yahweh, hath spoken:––Sons, have I brought up, and advanced, And, they, have rebelled against me.

⁷ And, of thy sons who shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away,––and they shall become eunuchs, in the palace of the king of Babylon.

²⁴ As I live, Declareth Yahweh,––Even though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet–ring upon my right hand, yet, from thence, would I pull thee off; ²⁵ and I would give thee into the hand of them who seek thy life, and into the hand of them from the face of whom, thou, dost shrink in fear,––even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans; ²⁶ and I will hurl thee out, and thy mother who bare thee, upon another land, where ye were not born,––and, there, shall ye die. ²⁷ But, unto the land whither they shall be lifting up their souls to return, thither, shall they not return. ²⁸ An earthen vessel, to be despised, thrown about, is this man Coniah? Or an instrument, in which is no pleasure? Wherefore, are they to be cast out, he, and his seed, and to be thrown forth upon a land which they have not known?

³¹ And it came to pass, in the thirty–seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty–fifth of the month, that Evil–merodach king of Babylon, in the year he began to reign, lifted up, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison; ³² and spake with him comfortable words,––and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon; ³³ so he changed his prison garments,––and used to eat bread before his face continually, all the days of his life. ³⁴ And, his allowance, was a continual, allowance, given him from the king of Babylon, the portion of the day upon its own day, until the day of his death,––all the days of his life.

² On the fifth of the month, that, was the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoiachin,

³ And he said unto me––Son of man, I, am sending thee, unto the sons of Israel, unto rebellious, nations, which have rebelled against me,––they, and their fathers, have transgressed against me, until this very day; ⁴ and it is, unto such, sons––of shameless face, and emboldened heart, that I, am sending thee,––therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh. ⁵ And, they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for, a perverse house, they are, shall then know that, a prophet, hath been in their midst.

⁸ Thou, therefore, son of man, hear what I, am speaking unto thee, become not perverse, like the perverse house,––open thy mouth, and eat that which I, am giving unto thee.

⁹ As an adamant, harder than flint, have I made thy forehead,––thou shalt not fear them, neither shalt thou be dismayed at their faces, For, a perverse house, they are!

⁹ Son of man, Have not the house of Israel, the perverse house, said unto thee,––What art thou, doing? ¹⁰ Say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––[For] the Bearer, is this burden, in Jerusalem, and [for] all the house of Israel, such as are in their midst. ¹¹ Say, I, am your sign: As I have done, so, shall it be done to them, Into exile––into captivity, shall they go.

³ So then thou shalt say, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––A great eagle, with large wings of long pinion, full of plumage, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

¹⁹ Then said the people unto me: Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou shouldst be acting [thus]?

⁵¹ Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea!

¹⁶ And, he, said, To this moment, are, ye also, without discernment? ¹⁷ Perceive ye not that, every thing which entereth into the mouth, into the stomach, findeth way, and, into the draught, is passed;

¹¹ How is it ye perceive not, that, not concerning loaves, spake I unto you,––but beware of the leaven, of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

¹³ And he saith unto them––Know ye not this parable? How then will ye get to know all the parables?

⁴⁵ But, they, understood not this saying, and it had become veiled from them, that they might not grasp it,––and they were afraid to question him, concerning this saying.

³⁰ And, running near, Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said––Dost thou, then, understand what thou art reading?