Ezechiel 17:4
He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.
Challoner: ChanaanThis name, which signifies traffic, is not taken here for Palestine, but for Chaldea: and the city of merchants here mentioned is Babylon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Summitatem frondium ejus avulsit, et transportavit eam in terram Chanaan : in urbe negotiatorum posuit illam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὰ ἄκρα τῆς ἁπαλότητος ἀπέκνισεν, καὶ ἢνεγκεν αὐτὰ εἰς γῆν Χανάαν, εἰς πόλιν τετειχισμένην ἔθετο αὐτά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֵ֛ת רֹ֥אשׁ יְנִֽיקוֹתָ֖יו קָטָ֑ף וַיְבִיאֵ֨הוּ֙ אֶל אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן בְּעִ֥יר רֹכְלִ֖ים שָׂמֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Twigs. The young king and his officers, who had scarcely got established. (Calmet)
Chanaan. This name, which signifies traffic, is not taken here for Palestine, but for Chaldea; and the city of merchants here mentioned is Babylon. (Challoner)
It was so corrupt as to deserve this appellation, as Rome was afterwards styled Babylon. Its situation was very favourable to traffic, and its dominions were very extensive. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.