Ezekiel 17:14
Good News Translation
to keep the nation from rising again and to make sure that the treaty would be kept.

New Revised Standard Version
so that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

Contemporary English Version
so that the rest of the people of Judah would obey only him and never gain control of their own country again.

New American Bible
To be a humble kingdom, without high aspirations, to keep his covenant and so survive.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his covenant and observe it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his covenant and observe it.

the kingdom

Ezekiel 17:6 And it sprung up and grew into a spreading vine of low stature, and the branches thereof looked towards him: and the roots thereof were under him. So it became a vine, and grew into branches, and shot forth sprigs.

Ezekiel 29:14 And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:

Deuteronomy 28:43 The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.

1 Samuel 2:7,30 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: . . .

Nehemiah 9:36,37 Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it. . . .

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Matthew 22:17-21 Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? . . .

base.

Jeremiah 27:12-17 And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live. . . .

Jeremiah 38:17 And Jeremiah said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution and go out to the princes of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burnt with fire: and thou shalt be safe, and thy house.

Context
The Parable Explained
13And he shall take one of the king's seed, and make a covenant with him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he shall take away the mighty men of the land, 14That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his covenant and observe it.15But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?…
Cross References
Ezekiel 29:14
And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:

Ezekiel 29:15
It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they shall rule no more over the nations.

Ezekiel 17:13
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