Ezekiel 19:1 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 19:1

Princes of Israel - Israel is the whole nation over which the king of Judah was the rightful sovereign. Compare Ezekiel 2:3; Ezekiel 3:1, Ezekiel 3:7. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 19:1-2

Ezekiel 19:1-2. Take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel The expression alludes to the mournful songs sung at funerals. Such a lamentation the prophet is directed to apply to the mournful condition of Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. And say, What is thy mother? What resemblance shall I use to express the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes, namely, Judea, or the Jewish nation? The prophet proposes a question that may be applied to each prince... 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 19:1

princes. Septuagint reads"prince"(singular) Here refers to Zedekiah. Israel. Put here for Judah. See note on 1 Kings 12:17 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ezekiel 19:1

PROPHETIC FUNERAL FOR THE EARTHLY HOUSE OF DAVIDThis chapter is a dirge written by Ezekiel as a prophetic funeral for the earthly end of the House of David. As Cooke stated it:"Ezekiel could write fine poetry when he chose; and on this occasion the impulse came from a mixed emotion, his pride in the royal house of Judah, and his pity for the misfortunes of the young princes."[1]Evidently, Cooke overlooked the fact that it was upon the express commandment of the Lord himself that Ezekiel wrote... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 19:1

Ezekiel 19:1. A lamentation for the princes of Israel— The expression alludes to the mournful songs sang at funerals. This chapter is of that species which Bishop Lowth calls, "Poetical Parables." The style of itself is excellent, and the allegory well sustained. Houbigant, instead of princes, would read after the LXX, the prince; a reading which the following observations seem to countenance. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 19:1

1. princes of Israel—that is, Judah, whose "princes" alone were recognized by prophecy; those of the ten tribes were, in respect to the theocracy, usurpers. read more

Thomas Constable

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

Ezekiel was to lament (Heb. qinah) for the princes of Israel. This is the first of five laments in Ezekiel (cf. Ezekiel 26:17-18; Ezekiel 27; Ezekiel 28:12-19; Ezekiel 32:1-16). Laments usually utilize the qinah or limping form of rhythm in Hebrew, and this one does. The qinah form consists normally of three accented words followed by two accented words in a couplet. For example in Ezekiel 19:2 in the NASB this rhythm is discernible: "She lay down among young lions; she reared her cubs."... read more

Thomas Constable

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

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

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 19:1-14

A Lament for the Royal House of JudahThis chapter is a poem in which the measure used for a dirge or elegy is more or less traceable throughout. It describes first a lioness, two of whose whelps are successively caught and taken away from her (Ezekiel 19:1-9), and next a vine with lofty branches, which is ruined by a fire proceeding from one of them (Ezekiel 19:10-14). There is no doubt that the branch from which destruction spreads to the vine is Zedekiah. The vine itself may be the nation of... read more