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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:1-9

A lamentation for fallen princes. "Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, and say, What was thy mother?" etc. Here are three preliminary inquiries. 1 . Who is addressed by the prophet? Or, whom are we to understand by the pronoun "thy"? "What was thy mother?" "Jehoiachin is addressed," says the 'Speaker's Commentary.' Hengstenberg says, "The address is to the man Judah, the people of the present." And Schroder, "The address is directed to the people." But,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 19:4-9

Chains - See the marginal rendering to Ezekiel 19:9 and Isaiah 27:9, note.Ezekiel 19:5Another - Jehoiachin who soon showed himself no less unworthy than Jehoahaz. The “waiting” of the people was during the absence of their rightful lord Jehoahaz, a captive in Egypt while Jehoiakim, whom they deemed an usurper, was on the throne. It was not until Jehoiachin succeeded, that they seemed to themselves to have a monarch of their own 2 Kings 24:6.Ezekiel 19:7Their desolate palaces - Rather, his... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 19:5-9

Ezekiel 19:5-9. When she saw that she had waited This seems to signify that the Jews waited some time before they thought of setting another king over them, hoping, probably, that the king of Egypt would restore unto them Jehoahaz, whom he had taken prisoner; but when they saw their hopes disappointed in this, and that there was no longer any room to expect it, then they, by the consent, and probably, direction of the king of Egypt, elected Jehoahaz’s brother, Eliakim, king in his stead,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 19:1-14

Mourning for Judah’s kings (19:1-14)Although the prophet realized that God’s judgment on the sinful people of Judah was fitting, he felt sorry for those Judean kings who fell victim to the foreign invaders (19:1). Judah was like a mother lion whose young lions became kings to rule over nations. However, when Egypt in 609 BC gained control of the region, Judah’s king Jehoahaz was captured, bound and taken to Egypt, where he later died (2-4; see 2 Kings 23:31-34).The next ‘lion’ had all the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 19:9

in ward in chains = in a cage with hooks (or hoops), as lions are represented on the monuments. See 2 Chronicles 36:5-7 , and Jeremiah 22:13-19 . king. Some codices read "land". read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 19:8

Ezekiel 19:8. In their pit— The Arabs dig a pit where the lions are observed to enter; and, covering it slightly with reeds or small branches of trees, they frequently decoy and catch them. Pliny has taken notice of the same practice. Shaw, 172. 4to. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 19:9

Ezekiel 19:9. And they put him in ward, &c.— And having put a bridle or hook upon him, they cast him into a cave. Houbigant. See on Ezekiel 19:4. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 19:8

8. the nations—the Chaldeans, Syrians, Moab, and Ammon ( :-). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 19:9

9. in chains— (2 Chronicles 36:6; Jeremiah 22:18). Margin, "hooks"; perhaps referring to the hook often passed through the nose of beasts; so, too, through that of captives, as seen in the Assyrian sculptures (see on Jeremiah 22:18- :). voice—that is, his roaring. no more be heard upon the mountains—carrying on the metaphor of the lion, whose roaring on the mountains frightens all the other beasts. The insolence of the prince, not at all abated though his kingdom was impaired, was now to cease. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 19:1-9

The lion and her cubs 19:1-9 read more