Ezekiel 19:8

Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

In Context

7And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

9They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:2And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 22:19They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 12:13And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.

Ezekiel 19:4And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:2-10

The Fall of the Royal Family; Fall of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim. ( b. c. 593.) 1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had… Read the whole commentary →

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