Ezekiel 17:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ broke off its topmost shoot; he carried it to a land of trade, set it in a city of merchants.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ he cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He broke off the topmost of its young twigs [the youthful King Jehoiachin] and carried it into a land of trade [Babylon]; he set it in a city of merchants.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

Common English Bible

⁴ He plucked a twig from the cedar’s crown, brought it to the land of traders, and set it down in a city of merchants.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He tore off the summit of its branches, and he transported it to the land of Canaan; he placed it in a city of merchants.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof and carried it away into the land of Chanaan: and he set it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 17:4 Cross References

2 Kings 24:12

King Jehoiachin of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon: himself, his mother, his servants, his officers, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign.

Isaiah 43:14

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentation.

Isaiah 47:15

Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they all wander about in their own paths; there is no one to save you.

Jeremiah 24:1

The Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. This was after King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem King Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the artisans, and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:13

You who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

Ezekiel 17:3

Say: Thus says the Lord God: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to the Lebanon. He took the top of the cedar,

Ezekiel 17:5

Then he took a seedling from the land, placed it in fertile soil; a plant by abundant waters, he set it like a willow twig.

Ezekiel 31:3

Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have fallen from the wine of the wrath of her prostitution, and the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury.”