Ezekiel 17:14
“That the kingdome might bee base, that it might not lift it selfe vp, but that by keeping of his Couenant it might stand.”
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Ezekiel 17:14 Context
12Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things meane? tell them, behold, the king of Babylon is come to Ierusalem, and hath taken the King thereof, and the Princes thereof, and ledde them with him to Babylon, 13And hath taken of the kings seed, and made a couenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land, 14That the kingdome might bee base, that it might not lift it selfe vp, but that by keeping of his Couenant it might stand. 15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadours into Egypt, that they might giue him horses and much people: shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall hee breake the Couenant, and bee deliuered? 16As I liue, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose couenant he brake, euen with him, in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
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That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
- King James Version
that the kingdom might be in subjection, not exalting itself, {but} keeping his covenant that it might continue.
- New American Standard Version (1995)