Although King Nebuchadnezzar had made him swear by the name of the Lord, he broke his oath and rebelled; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart and transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.
And though King Nebuchadnez′zar had made him swear by the name of the Lord, he broke his oath and rebelled; and he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart and transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.
And he adjured, or charged by oath, of (or by) king Nebuchadnezzar, forsworn went away, and his noll made hard, he over-passed the lawful things of the Lord God of Israel. [and adjured of king Nebuchadnezzar, forsworn went away, and with his hardened knoll, and with his heart trespassed the lawful things of the Lord God of Israel.]