Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 19:1
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the (a) princes of Israel,
(a) That is, Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, Josiah's sons, who for their pride and cruelty are compared to lions.
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the (a) princes of Israel,
(a) That is, Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, Josiah's sons, who for their pride and cruelty are compared to lions.
CHAPTER XIX _This chapter contains two beautiful examples of the parabolic_ _kind of writing; the one lamenting the sad catastrophe of_ _Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim_, 1-9, _and the other describing the...
PRINCES OF ISRAEL - Israel is the whole nation over which the king of Judah was the rightful sovereign. Compare Ezekiel 2:3; Ezekiel 3:1, Ezekiel 3:7....
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...
PRINCES. Septuagint reads"prince"(singular) Here refers to Zedekiah. ISRAEL. Put _here_ for Judah. See note on 1 Kings 12:17....
Captivity of Jehoahaz in Egypt 2. How was thy mother a lioness! among the lions; In the midst of young lions she couched she reared her whelps. 3. And she brought up one of her whelps he grew a y...
A LAMENTATION FOR THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL— The expression alludes to the mournful songs sang at funerals. This chapter is of that species which Bishop Lowth calls, "Poetical Parables." The style of itse...
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...
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, There is a tacit antithesis between this lamentation and that of the Jews for their own miseries, the causes of which, however, they d...
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...
וְ אַתָּה֙ שָׂ֣א קִינָ֔ה אֶל ־נְשִׂיאֵ֖י יִשׂ
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...
_Princes: sons of Josias, who were so wretched. The latter part of this beautiful canticle, or allegory, (ver. 10.) regards Sedecias. (Calmet)_...
CONTENTS The Prophet, at the command of the Lord, is, in this chapter, lamenting for the princes of Israel. The language is, as usual, figurative....
This is a very instructive chapter, especially to Ministers of the Gospel. The Prophet, under the similitude of a lioness bereaved of her whelps, sets forth the desolate state of the royal house of Da...
Here the Prophet, under the image of a lion, informs us that whatever evils happened to the Israelites could not be imputed to others. We must understand then his intention: it is not surprising that...
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...
MOREOVER, TAKE THOU UP A LAMENTATION,.... These words are directed to the Prophet Ezekiel, to compose a doleful ditty, a mournful song, such as was used at funerals; and by it represent the lamentable...
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, Ver. 1. _Moreover take thou up a lamentation._] A _threnodia,_ a doleful ditty. In all ages things joyful and sorrowful were made up in...
_Take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel_ The expression alludes to the mournful songs sung at funerals. Such a lamentation the prophet is directed to apply to the mournful condition of Jehoah...
OVER THE KINGS...
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation, an elegy, FOR THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL, evidently the kings then living, namely, Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin,...
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...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 19 A lamentation for the princes of Israel, under the parable of lions whelps taken in a pit, EZEKIEL 19:1; and for Jerusalem, under the parable of a wasted vine, EZEKIEL 19:10. MOREOV...
Ezekiel 19:1 up H5375 (H8798) lamentation H7015 princes H5387 Israel H3478 take - Ezekiel 19:14,...
THE YOUNG LIONS OF ISRAEL-JUDAH. “Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, and say.' Those who represent Judah now represent Israel, for Israel has been taken up into Judah. So the...
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 Chronicles 24:1; 2 Chronicles 24:8; 2 Chronicles 35:25; 2 Chronicles 36:10;...
For the princes — Jehoahaz, Jehoiachim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah....