Ezekiel 19:1
Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 23:29And in his days went up Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates: and Josiah went out to meet him: and Neco slew him in Megiddo when he saw him.
2 Kings 24:6And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 25:5And the force of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army was dispersed from about him.
2 Chronicles 36:3And the king brought him over to Egypt; and imposed a tribute on the land, a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Chronicles 36:10And at the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his father’s brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 9:10And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Judah, so that they shall not be inhabited.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:1
The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the 17th, to foretel and lament the ruin of the house of David, the royal family of Judah, in the calamitous exit of the four sons and grandsons of Josiah—Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah, in whom that illustrious line of kings was cut off, which the prophet is here ordered to lament, ver. 1 . And he does it by similitudes. I. The kingdom of Judah and house of David are here compared to a lioness, and those princes to lions, that were fierce and… Read the whole commentary →