Ezekiel 19:6

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

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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

5“‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:1In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.

2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight.

Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

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

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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