Ezekiel 19:2

And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,

Geneva Bible 1599

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

1Thou also, take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

3And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men.

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Cross References

Job 4:11The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

Isaiah 5:29His roaring shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like lyons whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the praye: they shall take it away, and none shall deliuer it.

Nahum 2:11Where is the dwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyons whelpes? where the lyon, and the lionesse walked, and the lyons whelpe, and none made them afrayde.

Zechariah 11:3There is the voyce of the houling of the shepherdes: for their glorie is destroyed: the voyce of ye roaring of lyons whelpes: for the pride of Iorden is destroyed.

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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