Ezekiel 17:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he 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

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

Isaiah 43:14

Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

Isaiah 47:15

Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast laboured: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.

Jeremiah 24:1

The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD; after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:13

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

Ezekiel 17:3

and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

Ezekiel 17:5

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

Ezekiel 31:3

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

Revelation 18:3

For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.