Ezekiel 17:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֱמָר־נָא֙ לְבֵ֣ית הַמֶּ֔רִי הֲלֹ֥א יְדַעְתֶּ֖ם מָה־אֵ֑לֶּה אֱמֹ֗ר הִנֵּה־בָ֨א מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֤ל יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ וַיִּקַּ֤ח אֶת־מַלְכָּהּ֙ וְאֶת־שָׂרֶ֔יהָ וַיָּבֵ֥א אוֹתָ֛ם אֵלָ֖יו בָּבֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

ʾĕmār-nāʾ to bêt the merî not yədaʿtem what-ʾēlleh ʾĕmōr behold-bāʾ melek-Bābel Yərûšālaim and wayyiqqaḥ ʾet-malkāh and ʾet-śāreyhā and wayyābēʾ ʾôtām unto him Bābelâ

Grammar Details

• *ʾĕmār*: qal imperative masculine singular - say/speak
• *nāʾ*: particle of entreaty - please/now
• *bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *merî*: definite noun, masculine singular - rebellion
• *yədaʿtem*: qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - you know
• *ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun, plural - these
• *ʾĕmōr*: qal imperative masculine singular - say/speak
• *bāʾ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - came
• *melek*: noun, masculine singular construct - king of
• *Bābel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *Yərûšālaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *wayyiqqaḥ*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw-consecutive - took/seized
• *malkāh*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - its king
• *śāreyhā*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd feminine singular suffix - its princes/officials
• *wayyābēʾ*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw-consecutive - brought/carried
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *Bābelâ*: proper noun with directional heh - to Babylon

Word Meanings

• *merî*: rebellion/disobedience/stubbornness
• *yədaʿtem*: you know/understand/perceive
• *bāʾ*: came/went/entered

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 24:19 : 19 And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?
• Ezek 1:2 : 2 On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,
• Ezek 17:3 : 3 And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
• Ezek 2:3-5 : 3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day. 4 And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord. 5 And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.
• Ezek 2:8 : 8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.
• Ezek 3:9 : 9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.
• Ezek 12:9-9 : 9 Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing? 10 You are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: This word has to do with the ruler in Jerusalem and all the children of Israel in it. 11 Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so will it be done to them: they will go away as prisoners.
• Matt 13:51 : 51 Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.
• Matt 15:16-17 : 16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
• Matt 16:11 : 11 How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
• Mark 4:13 : 13 And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?
• Luke 9:45 : 45 But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.
• Acts 8:30 : 30 And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you?
• Exod 12:26 : 26 And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?
• Deut 6:20 : 20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?
• Josh 4:6 : 6 So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?
• Josh 4:21 : 21 And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?
• 2 Kgs 24:10-16 : 10 At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town; 12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him. 13 And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said. 14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away. 15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
• 2 Chr 36:9-9 : 9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord. 10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
• Isa 1:2 : 2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
• Isa 39:7 : 7 And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.
• Jer 22:24-28 : 24 By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off; 25 And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans. 26 I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you. 27 But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back. 28 Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?
• Jer 52:31-34 : 31 And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison. 32 And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 33 And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life. 34 And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.