Ezekiel 17:4
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New International Version (©1984)
he broke off its topmost shoot and carried it away to a land of merchants, where he planted it in a city of traders.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"He plucked off the topmost of its young twigs and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city of traders.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It broke off the highest twig and carried it to a country of merchants. It planted the twig in a city of merchants.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

World English Bible
he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

Young's Literal Translation
The top of its tender twigs it hath cropped, And it bringeth it in to the land of Canaan. In a city of merchants it hath placed it.

Geneva Study Bible

He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of {b} trade; he set it in a city of merchants.

(b) Meaning to Babylon.

Wesley's Notes

17:4 The top - Both the king of Judah, now eighteen years old, and the nobles and chief of the land. Into a land - Babylon, which was a city of mighty trade.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. land of traffic . merchants-Babylon (2Ki 24:15, 16), famous for its transport traffic on the Tigris and Euphrates. Also, by its connection with the Persian Gulf, it carried on much commerce with India.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-10 Mighty conquerors are aptly likened to birds or beasts of prey, but their destructive passions are overruled to forward God's designs. Those who depart from God, only vary their crimes by changing one carnal confidence for another, and never will prosper.


Ezekiel 17:3 saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "A great eagle with great wings, long pinions and a full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
Ezekiel 17:5 "He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters; he set it like a willow. (NASB ©1995)

Biting Branches Broke Canaan Carried City Highest Merchants Placed Planted Plucked Shoot Shoots Tender Thereof Top Topmost Trade Traders Traffic Traffick Twigs Young


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.

the top. The princes of Judah
into Isa 43:14 47:15 Jer 51:13 Re 18:3,11-19

a land
Chaldea
a city. Babylon, which by means of the Euphrates and Tigris, had communications with the richest and most distant nations.

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Alphabetical: a and away broke brought carried city he in it its land merchants of off planted plucked set shoot the to topmost traders twigs where young

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