¹³Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty^e with him, putting him under oath.^f He also carried away the leading men^g of the land, ¹⁴so that the kingdom would be brought low,^h unable to rise again, surviving only by keeping his treaty. ¹⁵But the king rebelledⁱ against him by sending his envoys to Egypt^j to get horses and a large army.^k Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?^l

¹⁶“ ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, he shall die^m in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.ⁿ ¹⁷Pharaoh^o with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps^p are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.^q ¹⁸He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge^r and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.

¹⁹“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant.^s

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Cross references

eSee Ex 23:32; See Jer 37:1
f 2 Ch 36:13
g Isa 3:2
h Eze 29:14
i Jer 52:3
jSee Isa 30:2; See Jer 37:5
kSee Dt 17:16
lSee Ps 56:7; See Isa 30:5; Jer 34:3; 38:18; Eze 29:16
mSee Jer 52:11; Eze 12:13
nSee 2 Ki 24:17
o Jer 37:7
pSee Eze 4:2
qSee Isa 36:6; Jer 37:5; Eze 29:6–7
rSee 2 Ki 10:15; 1 Ch 29:24
s Jer 7:9; See Eze 16:59; 21:23; Hos 10:4