Ezekiel 19:13 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

Jerusalem, the mother-city, is here represented by another similitude; she is a vine, and the princes are her branches. This comparison we had before, Ezek. 15:1. Jerusalem is as a vine; the Jewish nation is so: Like a vine in they blood (Ezek. 19:10), the blood-royal, like a vine set in blood and watered with blood, which contributes very much to the flourishing and fruitfulness of vines, as if the blood which had been shed had been designed for the fattening and improving of the soil, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 19:13

And now she is planted in the wilderness ,.... In the land of Babylon, which though a very fruitful country, yet, because of the hardships and miseries which the Jews were exposed unto in it, was a wilderness to them: in a dry and thirsty ground ; which is a periphrasis or description of a wilderness, Psalm 63:1 ; and designs the same place as before; where the Jews were deprived of their liberties, and had not the opportunities of divine worship, the word and ordinances; and were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 19:13

And now she is planted in the wilderness - In the land of Chaldea, whither the people have been carried captives; and which, compared with their own land, was to them a dreary wilderness. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 19:13

Verse 13 The Prophet seems here inconsistent with himself, since these two clauses are openly at variance, that the vine was not, only withered, but burnt up, and yet planted in a desert place; for if it was withered, it could not take root again; but the burning removed the slightest hope; for when the twigs were reduced to ashes, who ever saw a vine spring up and grow from its ashes? But when the Prophet says that the vine was withered and burnt up, he refers to the conclusion which men must... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

The parable of the destruction of the vine. The Jews have often been compared to a vine well cared for by God, and the same comparison, on our Lord's authority, may be applied to Christians. In the present case we have a description first of the prosperity of the vine, and then of the devastating ruin of it. I. THE PROSPERITY OF THE VINE . 1 . It was planted by the waters . Thus it was well nourished and refreshed. God cares for his children, and supplies their wants.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

The downfall of the city. The transition is a bold one, from the figure of the lioness's whelps to that of the vine with its pride of growth and its clusters of fruit, and anon as withered and. scorched and ready to perish. Little is there of tenderness or of sympathy in the prophet's view of the degenerate scions of the royal house of Judah. But when he comes to speak of Jerusalem, a sweeter similitude rises before his vision; it is the vine that grew and flourished on the sunny slopes of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

A nation's rise and fall. If the emblem chosen to represent the Hebrew kings was a lion, "the lion of the tribe of Judah," the emblem of the nation was a vine. The vine was indigenous in the land; the whole territory was a vineyard. As the vine is chief among trees for fruitfulness, so Israel, on account of superior advantage, was expected to be chief among the nations for spiritual productiveness. The fruits of piety and righteousness ought to have abounded on every branch. I. HER ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

National prosperity and national ruin. "Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters," etc. This paragraph completes the lamentation for the princes of Israel. The figure is changed from the lioness and the young lions to the vine and its branches and fruit. This similitude is frequently used in the sacred Scriptures to represent the people of Israel ( Ezekiel 15:1-8 .; Ezekiel 17:5-10 ; Psalms 80:8-16 ; Isaiah 5:1-7 ; Jeremiah 2:21 ). The parable before us... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 19:10-14

Ezekiel 19:10-14. Thy mother is like a vine Here another similitude is made use of, and the Jewish nation is compared, as it frequently is in other places, to a vine. In thy blood So the Hebrew and Vulgate; but the LXX. read, ως ανθος εν ροα , as a flower on a pomegranate-tree; and Bishop Newcome, who supposes the LXX. to have read כרמן , and not בדמךְ , renders the clause, like a pomegranate, planted by the waters, &c. “The Jewish nation, whence the royal family had their... 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 19:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 19:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 19:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 19:10-14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 19:10-14

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 19:1-14

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