Ezekiel 19:5

Nowe when she sawe, that she had waited and her hope was lost, she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a lyon.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4The nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chaines vnto the land of Egypt.

6Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured men.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:34And Pharaoh Nechoh made Eliakim the sonne of Iosiah King in steade of Iosiah his father, and turned his name to Iehoiakim, and tooke Iehoahaz away, which when he came to Egypt, dyed there.

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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