Ézéchiel 17:14

Louis Segond

afin que le royaume fût tenu dans l'abaissement, sans pouvoir s'élever, et qu'il gardât son alliance en y demeurant fidèle.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Afin que le Royaume fût tenu bas, et qu'il ne s'élevât point, [mais] qu'en gardant son alliance, il subsistât.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Afin que le royaume fût tenu dans l'abaissement, sans pouvoir s'élever, tout en le laissant subsister, s'il observait son alliance.

Darby's French Translation
afin que le royaume fût bas et qu'il ne s'élevât point, afin qu'il gardât son alliance pour subsister.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the kingdom: Ezekiel 17:6, Ezekiel 29:14, Deuteronomy 28:43, 1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:30, Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Lamentations 5:10, Matthew 22:17-21

base: Or, low; a tributary kingdom, dependent on the king of Babylon.

but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand: Heb. to keep his covenant, to stand to it, Jeremiah 27:12-17, Jeremiah 38:17

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 24:14 - the poorest sort Ezekiel 26:7 - a king Ezekiel 29:15 - the basest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That the kingdom might be base,.... Low or humble; its king but a viceroy, a tributary to the king of Babylon; and the subjects obliged to a tax, payable to him; and this is intended by the vine being of "low stature", Ezekiel 17:6;

that it might not lift up itself; above other neighbouring kingdoms and states; and particularly that it might not rebel against Nebuchadnezzar, but be kept in a dependence on him, and subjection to him:

[but] that by keeping of his covenant it might stand; continue a kingdom, and Zedekiah king of it; so that it was for their good that such a covenant was made, and it was their interest to keep it; for, had it not been made, it would have ceased to have been a kingdom, and would have become a province of the Babylonian monarchy, and have been put under the government of one of Nebuchadnezzar's princes or captains; and, should they break it, would endanger the ruin of their state, as the event showed. In the Hebrew text it is, "to keep his covenant, to make it stand"; or, "to stand to it" y; that is, as it should seem, to make the covenant stand firm. The Targum is,

"that it might keep his covenant, and serve him;''

Nebuchadnezzar.

y לשמר את בריתו לעמדה "ad custodiendum pactum ejus, ad astandum ei", Montanus; "ad servandum foedus suum, ad consistendumm", Starckius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 17:14. That the kingdom might be base — Have no political consequence, and at last sink into a miserable government under Gedaliah.