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Ezekiel 17:15

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But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

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Ezekiel 17:15 in other translations

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?

Ezekiel 17:15 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 17:15 in context

  1. 13He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
  2. 14that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
  3. 15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?
  4. 16“ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.
  5. 17Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.