Ezekiel 19:2

Say to the Israeli people, ‘ It is as though [MET] your mother was a brave female lion who raised her cubs among other lions.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

In Context

1Yahweh said to me, “Ezekiel, sing a sad funeral song a which will be a parable about two of the kings of Israel.

3She taught one of them to hunt for other animals to kill, and he even learned to kill and eat people.

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Cross References

Job 4:11They will die like fierce lions that starve to death when there are no animals that they can kill and eat, and their children will be separated from each other like young lions separate from each other to find food.”

Isaiah 5:29They will roar like very strong lions [DOU] that growl and then pounce on the animals they want to kill and carry them off, and no one is able to rescue them.

Nahum 2:11After that happens, people will say, “What happened to [RHQ] that great city of Nineveh? It was like [MET] a den full of young lions, where the male and female lions lived and fed the young ones.

Zechariah 11:3And listen to the shepherds crying because the fertile pastures have been ruined. Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the delightful forest where they live near the Jordan River has been ruined.

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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