Ezekiel 17:16
“As holy Scripture tells us, God intends that the covenant with Israel is an abuse against Nebuchadnezzar.”
Source: Septuagint
16As I live, saith the Lord, verily in the same place where the king is that made him king, who dishonored my oath, and who broke my covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.
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14that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.
15And if he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that they may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? and shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?
— Ezekiel 17:16 —
17And Pharaoh shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls.
18Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when, behold, I engaged his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.