Ezekiel 17:16

Easy To Read Version

The Lord my Master says, “By my life, I promise this new king will die in Babylonia! Nebuchadnezzar made this man the new king of Judah. But this man broke his promise with Nebuchadnezzar. This new king ignored that agreement.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2

The Gibeonites were not Israelites. They were a group of Amorites. The Israelites had promised them {that they would not hurt the Gibeonites}. [120] But Saul tried to kill the Gibeonites. He did this because of his strong feelings for the people of Israel and Judah.)

2 Kings 24:17

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah the new king. Mattaniah was Jehoiachin’s uncle. He changed his name to Zedekiah.

2 Kings 24:20

The Lord became so angry at Jerusalem and Judah that he threw them away.

Psalm 15:4

That person doesn’t respect the people\par that hate God.\par But that person shows honor to\par all the people who serve the Lord.\par If he makes a promise to his neighbor,\par then he does what he promised to do. {\cf2\super [81]} \par

Exodus 20:7

“You must not use the name of the Lord your God in a wrong way. If a person uses the Lord’s name in a wrong way, then that person is guilty. And the Lord will not make him innocent.

Exodus 8:2

If you refuse to let my people go, then I will fill Egypt with frogs.

Jeremiah 34:21

I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his leaders to their enemies and to every person that wants to kill them. I will give Zedekiah and his people to the army of the king of Babylon, even though that army has left Jerusalem. {\cf2\super [288]}

Jeremiah 39:7

Then Nebuchadnezzar tore out Zedekiah’s eyes. He put bronze chains on Zedekiah and took him to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:11

Then the king of Babylon tore out Zedekiah’s eyes. He put bronze chains on him. Then he carried Zedekiah away to Babylon. In Babylon he put Zedekiah into prison. Zedekiah stayed in prison until the day he died.

Ezekiel 12:13

\{He will try to escape.\} But I (God) will catch him! He will be caught in my trap. And I will bring him to Babylonia—the land of the Chaldean people. But he will not be able to see where he is going. \{The enemy will poke out his eyes and make him blind.\}

Ezekiel 17:10

Will the plant grow where it is planted?\par No! The hot east wind will blow\par and the plant will become dry and die.\par It will die there where it was planted.”\par

Ezekiel 17:13

Then Nebuchadnezzar made an agreement with a man from the king’s family. Nebuchadnezzar forced that man to make a promise. So this man promised to be loyal to Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar made this man the new king of Judah. Then he took all the powerful men away from Judah.

Ezekiel 21:23

Those \{magic\} signs mean nothing to the people of Israel. They have the promises they made. But \{the Lord\} will remember their sin! Then the Israelites will be captured.”

Hosea 10:4

They make promises—but they are only telling lies. They don’t keep their promises! They make agreements \{with other countries. God does not like those agreements\}. The judges are like poisonous weeds growing in a plowed field.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will come to you—and I will do the right thing. I will be like a person that is ready to tell the judge about the bad things people did. Some people do evil magic. Some people do the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [19]} Some people make false promises. Some people cheat their workers—they don’t pay them the money they promised. People don’t help widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [20]} People don’t help strangers. People don’t respect me!” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Numbers 30:2

“If a person wants to make a special promise to God, or if that person promises to give something special to God, then let him do that thing. But that person must do exactly what he promises!

Romans 1:31

they are foolish, they don’t keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to other people.

1 Timothy 1:10

people who do sexual sins, homosexuals, people who sell slaves, people who tell lies, people who speak falsely, and people who do anything that is against the true teaching \{of God\}.

2 Timothy 3:3

People in those times will not have love for other people. They will refuse to forgive and will talk about other people to hurt them. People will not control themselves. They will be angry and mean and will hate things that are good.

Joshua 9:20

This is what we must do. We must let them live. We cannot hurt them or God will be angry at us because we broke the promise we made to them.