George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 19:8
Nations: rovers of Chaldea, Syria, &c., 4 Kings xxiv. 2. (Worthington) --- Wounds. Hebrew, "pit." He was besieged, (4 Kings xxiv. 11.; Calmet) and gave himself up. (Haydock)
Nations: rovers of Chaldea, Syria, &c., 4 Kings xxiv. 2. (Worthington) --- Wounds. Hebrew, "pit." He was besieged, (4 Kings xxiv. 11.; Calmet) and gave himself up. (Haydock)
Verse Ezekiel 19:8. _THE NATIONS SET AGAINST HIM_] The Chaldeans, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites, and the king of Babylon - king of many nations. _HE WAS TAKEN_] The city was taken by Nebuchadnezza...
CHAINS - See the marginal rendering to Ezekiel 19:9 and Isaiah 27:9, note. Ezekiel 19:5 ANOTHER - Jehoiachin who soon showed himself no less unworthy than J
EZEKIEL 19. DIRGE OVER THE KINGS. From a chapter which has the ring almost of dogmatic theology, we pass to one of pure elegiac poetry, in which Ezekiel deals a death-blow to the vain hopes reposed in...
Jehoiachin carried captive to Babylon The second young lion is Jehoiachin. The intermediate prince Jehoiakim could not be included in an elegy, because he died in peace. It is the princes of Israel w...
IN THEIR PIT— The Arabs dig a pit where the lions are observed to enter; and, covering it slightly with reeds or small branches of trees, they frequently decoy and catch them. Pliny has taken notice o...
II. BITTER DIRGES 19:1-14 There is a time for a preacher to rebuke his audience; there is also a time for him to weep with them and for them. In chapter 19 Ezekiel becomes a sympathetic mourner. God i...
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. THEN THE NATIONS SET AGAINST HIM - the Chaldeans, Syrians, Moab, and Am...
A LAMENT FOR THE ROYAL HOUSE OF JUDAH This chapter is a poem in which the measure used for a dirge or elegy is more or less traceable throughout. It describes first a lioness, two of whose whelps are...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 19 * This chapter contains a sad song. It describes events...
THE NATIONS. — As in Ezekiel 19:4, for one nation: in that case Egypt, in this Babylon. The plural is naturally used, as several nations were concerned in the whole history, of which single particular...
וַ יִּתְּנ֨וּ עָלָ֥יו גֹּויִ֛ם סָבִ֖יב מִ מְּ
THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1; Ezekiel 17:1; Ezekiel 19:1 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearances, the exiles still received his prediction of the fall of Jerusalem...
The last section in the prophet's revelation of the righteousness of reprobation consists of his lament over the fallen princes of Judah. He first referred to Jehoahaz, the son and successor of Josiah...
Then the (f) nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. (f) Nebuchadnezzar with his great army which was gathered from various...
The Prophet is adverting to the Babylonish captivity, as he had before to that of Egypt, and from both raiseth a subject of lamentation. Reader! it is a very solemn consideration to the people of God,...
Since the word נתן, _nethen_, is often taken for “to utter a voice,” some explain this passage, that the nations came with great clamor against King Jehoiakim, as when an attack is made against a wild...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 contains an important principle of the dealings of God, unfolded at that period. God would judge the individual according to his own con...
THEN THE NATIONS SET AGAINST HIM,.... Or, "gave against him" y; that is, their voice, as Kimchi; they called to one another, to gather together against him; they gave their counsel against him; they,...
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. Ver. 8. _Then the nations set against him on every side._] Nebuchadnezzar,...
_When she saw that she had waited_ This seems to signify that the Jews waited some time before they thought of setting another king over them, hoping, probably, that the king of Egypt would restore un...
Then the nations set against him on every side, chiefly the Chaldeans, Syrians, Moab, and Ammon, 2 Kings 24:2, FROM THE PROVINCES, marching tip against Judah with their armies, AND SPREAD THEIR NET OV...
OVER THE KINGS...
1-9 Ezekiel is to compare the kingdom of Judah to a lioness. He must compare the kings of Judah to a lion's whelps; they were cruel and oppressive to their own subjects. The righteousness of God is t...
THE NATIONS which were feudatory to Nebuchadnezzar, and were bound to assist him in his wars. SET AGAINST HIM; by order of the king of Babylon gathered together to hunt this lion, to make war on this...
Ezekiel 19:8 nations H1471 set H5414 (H8799) provinces H4082 side H5439 spread H6566 (H8799) net H7568 trapped...
“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. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion. And he...
CONTENTS: Lamentation for princes of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God's ministers who have foretold His judgments upon sinners should bitterly lament the destruction of sinners when...
Ezekiel 19:2. _Thy mother was a lioness she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion._ These words are cited from Jacob's testamentary benedictions, in which Judah is called a lion's whelp...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 19:1 Ezekiel presents two further political allegories (vv. Ezekiel 19:1 and vv. Ezekiel 19:
LAMENTATION FOR THE MISERABLE FATE AWAITING THE PRINORS AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL (Chap. 19) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 19:1. The prophet foresees the capture and exile of the Princes into Egypt and Babyl...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 19:1 The two sections of this chapter—Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:10 -are respectively two parables of the same type as that of...
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation (Ezekiel 19:1) So this is a lamentation. Notice at the beginning he says a lamentation and then at the end he said, "This is a lamentation and shall be a lamentat...
2 Kings 24:1; Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:20; Ezekiel 19:4;...
The nations — Which were tributary to Nebuchadnezzar. Set against — By order of the king of Babylon. The provinces — Which belonged to the Babylonish kingdom....