Ezekiel 19:2-9

2 and say: “ ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs.

3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

4 The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

5 “ ‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

6 He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

7 He broke down^[a] their strongholds and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it were terrified by his roaring.

8 Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.

9 With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19:2-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 19

The subject matter of this chapter is a lamentation for the princes and people of the Jews, on account of what had already befallen them, and what was yet to come, Eze 19:1. The mother of the princes is compared to a lioness, and they to lions; who, one after another, were taken and carried captive, Eze 19:2-9; again, their mother is compared to a vine, and they to branches and rods for sceptres, destroyed by an east wind, and consumed by fire, Eze 19:10-14.

Cross References

• 1. S Numbers 23:24
• 2. S Genesis 49:9
• 3. S Job 41:2
• 4. 2 Kings 23:33-34; 2 Chronicles 36:4; S Lamentations 4:20
• 5. S Genesis 49:9
• 6. 2 Kings 23:34
• 7. 2 Kings 24:9; 2 Chronicles 36:9
• 8. Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:12
• 9. 2 Kings 24:2
• 10. S Ezekiel 12:13
• 11. 2 Kings 24:11; S Lamentations 4:20
• 12. S 2 Kings 19:28
• 13. S 2 Kings 25:7; S 2 Chronicles 36:6
• 14. Zechariah 11:3
• 15. S 2 Kings 24:15

Footnotes

• [a] Targum (see Septuagint); Hebrew "He knew"