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;
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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;
And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
Then he took a royal descendant, made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath. He took away the powerful people of the land,
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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;
He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
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;
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:
And hath taken one of the Kings seede, and made a couenant with him, and hath taken an othe of him: he hath also taken the princes of the land,
And he shall take one of the king's seed, and make a covenant with him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he shall take away the mighty men of the land,
And he taketh of the seed of the kingdom, And maketh with him a covenant, And bringeth him in to an oath, And the mighty of the land he hath taken,
And he takes of the seed of the kingdom, || And makes a covenant with him, || And brings him into an oath, || And he has taken the mighty of the land,
Then he took a royal descendant, made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath. He took away the powerful people of the land,
Then he took a royal descendant, made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath. He took away the powerful people of the land,
And he took of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath, and he took away the mighty of the land;
He took one of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land,
And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath from him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
He made an agreement with one of the royal family and made him take an oath that he would be a loyal subject as king. Then he took into exile the country's leaders,
And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:
and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath, and the mighty of the land he took away;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַמְּלוּכָ֔ה kingship H4410 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמְּלוּכָ֔ה kingship H4410 occurs in 23 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 23 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וַיִּקַּח֙ מִזֶּ֣רַע הַמְּלוּכָ֔ה וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת אִתּ֖וֹ בְּרִ֑ית וַיָּבֵ֤א אֹתוֹ֙ בְּאָלָ֔ה וְאֶת אֵילֵ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ לָקָֽח
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;
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί λαμβάνω ἐκ ὁ σπέρμα ὁ βασιλεία καί διατίθημι πρός αὐτός διαθήκη καί εἰςἄγω αὐτός ἐν ἀρά καί ὁ ἡγέομαι ὁ γῆ λαμβάνω
And he shall take of the seed royal, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath: and he shall take the princes of the land:
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וּדְבַר מִזַרְעָא דְמַלְכוּתָא וּגְזַר עִמֵהּ קְיַם וְאָעֵיל יָתֵהּ בְּמוֹמֵי וְיַת רַבְרְבֵי אַרְעָא דְבַר:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mᵉlûwkâh (“kingship”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 17:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.