Ezekiel 19:1
"Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 23:29In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
2 Kings 24:6So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 25:5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
2 Chronicles 36:3The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Chronicles 36:10At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 9:10"For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone."
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:1
The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the 17th, to foretel and lament the ruin of the house of David, the royal family of Judah, in the calamitous exit of the four sons and grandsons of Josiah—Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah, in whom that illustrious line of kings was cut off, which the prophet is here ordered to lament, ver. 1 . And he does it by similitudes. I. The kingdom of Judah and house of David are here compared to a lioness, and those princes to lions, that were fierce and… Read the whole commentary →