But Zedekiah rebelled; endeavoured to cast off the dominion of the conqueror Nebuchadnezzar, who had advanced him and obliged him. Sending his ambassadors is called bending his roots toward the second eagle. Egypt; an old bitter enemy, and an impotent and false friend. That they might give him horses: beside the perjury, here was a cursed trusting to an arm of flesh, of which Isaiah 31:1. Much people; Zedekiah had not men to set upon his hired horses; Egypt must help here too. How sottishly doth this unhappy Zedekiah act to run himself on the charge and hazard of a new war, in which, whoever is the gainer, he and his are sure to be the losers! Shall he prosper? see Ezekiel 17:9,10. Can it be likely vengeance should not overtake such ingratitude? Can perjury be the way for any man's deliverance? Can such notorious sinning end in any thing but misery?
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Ezekiel 17:15
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 doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?