These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezekiel 17
Tanakh 24 verses
- 1 And the of came unto me, saying:
- 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of ,
- 3 and say: Thus saith : 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;
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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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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 slip.
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And it grew, and became a spreading vine Of low stature, Whose tendrils might turn toward him, And the roots thereof be under him; So it became a vine, and brought forth branches, And shot forth sprigs.
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There was also another great eagle with great wings And many feathers; And, behold, this vine did bend Its roots toward him, And shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, That he might water it.
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It was planted in a good soil By many waters, That it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, That it might be a stately vine.
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- 9 Say thou: Thus saith : Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up the roots thereof, And cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither, Yea, wither in all its sprouting leaves? Neither shall great power or much people be at hand When it is plucked up by the roots thereof.
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Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? In the beds where it grew it shall wither.’
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- 11 Moreover the of came unto me, saying:
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Say now to the rebellious house: Know ye not what these things mean? tell them: Behold, the of came to , and took the thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to ;
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Ezekiel 24:19 Ezekiel 1:2 Ezekiel 17:3 Ezekiel 2:3-5 Ezekiel 2:8 Ezekiel 3:9 Isaiah 1:2 Mark 4:13 Exodus 12:26 Matthew 15:16-17 Joshua 4:21 Ezekiel 12:9-11 Matthew 13:51 Matthew 16:11 Acts 8:30 Isaiah 39:7 2 Kings 24:10-16 Jeremiah 52:31-34 Deuteronomy 6:20 Luke 9:45 2 Chronicles 36:9-10 Jeremiah 22:24-28 Joshua 4:6 -
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and he took of the seed royal, and made a with him, and brought him under an oath, and the mighty of the land he took away;
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- 14 that his might be a lowly , that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his it might stand.
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But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into , that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the , and yet escape?
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2 Chronicles 36:13 Ezekiel 17:7 Deuteronomy 17:16 2 Kings 24:20 Jeremiah 38:18 Jeremiah 52:3 Jeremiah 34:3 Jeremiah 38:23 Ezekiel 17:9 Ezekiel 17:18 Jeremiah 37:5-7 Psalm 55:23 Proverbs 19:5 Deuteronomy 29:12-15 Hebrews 2:3 Jeremiah 22:29-30 Isaiah 30:1-4 Ezekiel 21:25 Jeremiah 32:4 Isaiah 36:6-9 Matthew 23:33 Isaiah 31:1-3 -
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As I live, saith , surely in the place where the dwelleth that made him , whose oath he despised, and whose he broke, even with him in the midst of he shall die.
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Ezekiel 12:13 Jeremiah 52:11 Psalm 15:4 Ezekiel 17:13 Exodus 20:7 2 Samuel 21:2 Zechariah 5:3-4 Jeremiah 32:4-5 Ezekiel 17:18-19 Exodus 8:2 2 Kings 24:17 Joshua 9:20 Jeremiah 39:7 Ezekiel 16:59 Numbers 30:2 Romans 1:31 1 Timothy 1:10 2 Timothy 3:3 Ezekiel 17:10 Hosea 10:4 Jeremiah 34:3-5 Malachi 3:5 -
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Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company succour him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many souls;
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seeing he hath despised the oath by breaking the , when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
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Therefore thus saith : As I live, surely Mine oath that he hath despised, and My that he hath broken, I will even bring it upon his own head.
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- 20 And I will spread My net upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I will bring him to , and will plead with him there for his treachery that he hath committed against Me.
- 21 And all his mighty men in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward every wind; and ye shall that I have spoken it.
- 22 Thus saith : Moreover I will take, even I, of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent;
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in the mountain of the height of will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a stately cedar; and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing, in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
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Matthew 13:32 Galatians 3:28 Ezekiel 31:6 Colossians 3:11 Hosea 14:7 Isaiah 2:2 Acts 10:11-12 John 15:5-8 Daniel 4:21-23 Isaiah 27:6 Revelation 11:15 Isaiah 11:6-10 Isaiah 60:4-12 Psalm 92:12-13 John 12:24 Daniel 4:10-14 Matthew 13:47-48 Isaiah 49:18 Genesis 49:10 Psalm 22:27-30 Luke 14:21-23 Psalm 72:8-11 -
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And all the trees of the field shall that I have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I have spoken and have done it.’
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