Ezekiel 17:14
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these ? tell , Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and has taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
13 And has taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath of him: he has also taken the mighty of the land:
14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that does such ? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
16 I live, says the Lord GOD, surely in the place the king that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.