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Ezekiel 17:17

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Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

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Babylon was the Mesopotamian empire that deported Judah’s king; Lebanon and Canaan evoke the land and royal house from which he was taken, while Jerusalem was Judah’s threatened capital. Egypt, south of Canaan, was the foreign power Zedekiah trusted for rescue, but God declared its army would not save him.

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Ezekiel 17:17 mentions Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Jerusalem and Lebanon.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Canaan · Bahnfrend
Egypt · Ricardo Liberato
Jerusalem · Godot13

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