Ezekiel 19:1 - Exposition

The two sections of this chapter— Ezekiel 19:1-9 , Ezekiel 19:10-14 -are respectively two parables of the same type as that of Ezekiel 2:10 . The former telling nearly the same story under a different imagery, the latter a reproduction of the same imagery, with a slightly different application. Lamentation. The same word as that used in Ezekiel 2:10 . The whole chapter finds a parallel in Jeremiah's review of Josiah's successors ( Jeremiah 22:10-30 ). It is noticeable that the princes are described as being of Israel. The LXX . gives the singular, "the prince," and Hitzig and Ewald adopt this reading, applying it to Zedekiah.