Ezekiel 17:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חַי־אָ֗נִי נְאֻם֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִה֒ אִם־לֹ֗א בִּמְקוֹם֙ הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַמַּמְלִ֣יךְ אֹת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּזָה֙ אֶת־אָ֣לָת֔וֹ וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר הֵפֵ֖ר אֶת־בְּרִית֑וֹ אִתּ֥וֹ בְתוֹךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל יָמֽוּת׃

Transliteration

ḥay-ʾānî nəʾum ʾădōnāy YHWH if-not in məqôm the melek the mammlîk him whom bāzâ ʾet-ʾālātô and whom hēpēr ʾet-bərîtô with him in midst-Bābel yāmût

Grammar Details

• *ḥay*: adjective, masculine singular - living/alive
• *ʾānî*: personal pronoun, 1st common singular - I
• *nəʾum*: noun, masculine singular construct - declaration of
• *ʾădōnāy*: divine title - Lord/Master
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *məqôm*: noun, masculine singular construct - place of
• *melek*: definite noun, masculine singular - king
• *mammlîk*: definite hiphil participle masculine singular - causing to reign/making king
• *bāzâ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - despised/disdained
• *ʾālātô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his oath
• *hēpēr*: hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - broke/violated
• *bərîtô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his covenant
• *Bābel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *yāmût*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he will die

Word Meanings

• *ḥay*: living/alive (formula for oath - 'as I live')
• *nəʾum*: declaration/utterance/oracle
• *məqôm*: place/location/residence
• *mammlîk*: making king/enthroning/causing to reign
• *bāzâ*: despised/disdained/held in contempt

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 12:13 : 13 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
• Jer 52:11 : 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
• Jer 39:7 : 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
• Ezek 16:59 : 59 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
• Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. 4 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
• Exod 8:2 : 2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
• Exod 20:7 : 7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
• Num 30:2 : 2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
• Josh 9:20 : 20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
• 2 Sam 21:2 : 2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
• 2 Kgs 24:17 : 17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
• Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, But who honors those who fear Yahweh; He who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;
• Jer 32:4-5 : 4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes; 5 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper?
• Ezek 17:13 : 13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
• Ezek 17:18-19 : 18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head.
• Hos 10:4 : 4 They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
• Jer 34:3-5 : 3 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon. 4 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword; 5 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Rom 1:31 : 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
• 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
• 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
• Ezek 17:10 : 10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.