Ezekiel 19:6

He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

In Context

5When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:1During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.

2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

Jeremiah 36:1In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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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