Ezekiel 17:4
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
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 King James Version (AKJV)
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 (ASV)
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.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
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.
Clarke's Ezekiel 17:4 Bible Commentary
The top of his young twigs - The princes of Judah.
A land of traffic - Chaldea.
A city of merchants - Babylon; for which this city was the most celebrated of all the cities of the east. Its situation procured it innumerable advantages; its two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Persian Gulf, gave it communication with the richest and the most distant nations.
Barnes's Ezekiel 17:4 Bible Commentary
A land of traffick - The land of Babylon.
Wesley's Ezekiel 17:4 Bible Commentary
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.
