Ezekiel 19:8

8 Contre lui se rangèrent les nations de toutes les contrées voisines, et elles jetèrent sur lui leurs filets; il fut pris dans leur fosse.

Ezekiel 19:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 19:8

Then the nations set against him
Or, "gave against him" {y}; that is, their voice, as Kimchi; they called to one another, to gather together against him; they gave their counsel against him; they, joined together, agreed, and combined against him, and disposed their armies, and set them in array against him: on every side from the provinces;
Nebuchadnezzar and his auxiliaries, which consisted of the people of the provinces all around, who were brought together, and placed round about Jerusalem, at the siege of it; particularly the bands of the Chaldeans, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites, ( 2 Kings 24:1 2 Kings 24:2 ) ; and spread their net over him;
which may be expressive both of the policy, crafty and secret contrivances and designs, of Jehoiakim's enemies; and of their external force and hostile power against him: he was taken in their pit;
which they dug for him, or by the means which they contrived for his ruin, and which they put in execution and effected: the metaphor of a lion is carried on, and the manner of taking one is alluded to, which is commonly in pits, as Pliny ^F26 says; and the Arabs now dig a pit where lions are observed to enter, and covering it over slightly with reeds, of small branches of trees, they frequently decoy and catch them ^F1.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (wyle wntyw) "et ediderunt vocem"; Vatablus.
F26 "Capere eos ardui erat quondam operis, foveisque maxime". Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16.
F1 Dr. Shaw's Travels, p. 172. Ed. 2.

Ezekiel 19:8 In-Context

6 Il marcha parmi les lions, et devint un jeune lion; il apprit à déchirer sa proie, et dévora des hommes;

7 Il désolait leurs palais, et détruisait leurs villes; le pays avec tout ce qu'il contient fut frappé de stupeur à l'ouïe de son rugissement.

8 Contre lui se rangèrent les nations de toutes les contrées voisines, et elles jetèrent sur lui leurs filets; il fut pris dans leur fosse.

9 Elles le mirent en cage, avec des boucles aux narines; puis elles l'emmenèrent auprès du roi de Babylone, et le conduisirent dans une forteresse, afin qu'on n'entendît plus sa voix sur les montagnes d'Israël.

10 Ta mère était, comme toi, semblable à une vigne plantée près des eaux; elle était chargée de fruits et de sarments, grâce à l'abondance des eaux.