Ezekiel 19:1
Thou. therefore take up a dirge, for the prince of Israel;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, came up Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt, against the king of Assyria, unto the river Euphrates,—and, when King Josiah went against him, he slew him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
2 Kings 24:6So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers,—and, Jehoiachin his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Kings 25:5and the force of the Chaldeans, pursued, the king, and overtook him in the Waste Plains of Jericho,—and, all his force, was scattered from him.
2 Chronicles 36:3And the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem,—and condemned the land, in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
2 Chronicles 36:10and, when the year came round, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and carried him to Babylon, with the precious utensils of the house of Yahweh,—and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 9:10Over the mountains, will I take up a weeping and wailing, And over the oases of the desert, a dirge, For they have been burned, so that no man passeth through, Neither have men heard the lowing of cattle,—Both the bird of the heavens and the beast have fled, have gone their way:
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 →