Yehezkiel 17:4

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Pucuk yang kepala sekali digentasnya, lalu dibawanya akan dia kepada suatu negeri perniagaan, ditaruhnya akan dia di dalam suatu negeri orang saudagar-saudagar.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia mematahkan pucuknya yang paling ujung dan dibawanya ke sebuah negeri perdagangan lalu diletakkannya dia di kota perniagaan.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ia mematahkan pucuknya yang paling ujung dan dibawanya ke sebuah negeri perdagangan lalu diletakkannya dia di kota perniagaan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the top: The princes of Judah.

into: Isaiah 43:14, Isaiah 47:15, Jeremiah 51:13, Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:11-19

a land: Chaldea

a city: Babylon, which by means of the Euphrates and Tigris, had communications with the richest and most distant nations.

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:34 - traffic Ezekiel 31:3 - a cedar

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He cropped off the top of his young twigs,.... By which are meant the princes of the land, or the several branches of the royal family; the top of which was King Jeconiah, who was but young and tender, being but eighteen years of age when he began his reign, and this was within three months after; and who was no more able to withstand the force of the king of Babylon, than a tender twig so ravenous a bird as an eagle, 2 Kings 24:8; whose superior power and strength is signified by the cropping off of a tender twig:

and carried it into a land of traffic; not into the land of Canaan, as the Septuagint, and some other versions, literally render it; but into Babylon, which was become a place of great merchandise, through the great concourse of people to it, and the large additions made to the empire:

he set it in a city of merchants; meaning the city of Babylon, perhaps in particular, as distinct from the country before mentioned: the word for "merchants" signifies "apothecaries" or "druggists" p; and may design such merchants as traded in sweet spices and aromatic drugs. The words may be rendered, "and brought it out of the land of Canaan" q; out of which Jeconiah and his nobles were carried by the king of Babylon; so the particle אל sometimes signifies "from", or "out of", as in 1 Kings 8:30; and others r, "and in a city of merchants he set it"; in Babylon, famous for merchants; whom the Jews, being captives, were obliged to attend in a servile manner.

p רוכלים "aromatariorum", Junius & Tremellius, Polinus. So Stockius, p. 1017. q אל ארץ כנען "tetra Chanaan", Texelius, Phoenix, l. 3. c. 4. sect. 6. p. 205. r Vid. Noldii Concord. Part. Ebr. p. 56.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A land of traffick - The land of Babylon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 17:4. 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.