Ezekiel 19:8

Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

9And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:2And the Lord sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of Syria, and the bands of Moab, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them into the land of Judah to prevail against it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 12:13And I will spread out my net upon him, and he shall be caught in my toils: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

Ezekiel 19:4And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.

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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