1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Ezekiel 17:12 Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes thereof, and carry them with him to Babylon.

Shall, or, "hath taken," etc., (Challoner) as also (ver. 13.) Sedecias was seized five years after, Ezechiel 8:1. Jechonias, the princes, mighty warriors, (ver. 13.) and expert artists, had been taken away six years before, with the prophet. Protestants, "is come,...and hath taken," etc. (Haydock)