“The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ezekiel 19 contains 14 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.