Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 19:2
And say, What [is] thy (b) mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
(b) That is Jehoahaz's mother, or Jerusalem.
And say, What [is] thy (b) mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
(b) That is Jehoahaz's mother, or Jerusalem.
Verse Ezekiel 19:2. _WHAT_ IS _THY MOTHER? A LIONESS_] _Judea_ may here be the _mother_; the _lioness_, Jerusalem. _Her lying down among lions_, her having confederacy with the neighbouring _kings_; f...
THY MOTHER - The people represented by Judah. Compare Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24....
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...
THY MOTHER. Probably Hamutal, one of the wives of Josiah, the mother of Shallum (or Jehoahaz) and Zedekiah (2 Kings 23:31 and Ezekiel 24:18). The other son of Josiah (Jehoiakim) had. different mother...
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...
WHAT IS THY MOTHER? A LIONESS— Hereby is meant Jerusalem; the _lions_ with which she was familiar, are the kings of the nations; the young lions which she produced, are the princes the successors of k...
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...
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. AND SAY, WHAT IS THY MOTHER? - the mother of Jehoiachin, the representative of David's...
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...
THY MOTHER] Hamutal, whom some suppose to be meant here, was one of the wives of Josiah, and the mother of Shallum (or Jehoahaz) and Zedekiah (2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:18). Jehoiakim, the other son o...
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...
THY MOTHER. — Mother stands for the whole national community — the theocracy, as is plain from Ezekiel 19:10. This was represented, since the captivity of the ten tribes, by Judah; and her “princes,”...
וְ אָמַרְתָּ֗ מָ֤ה אִמְּךָ֙ לְבִיָּ֔א בֵּ֥ין...
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...
_Lioness; Jerusalem (Challoner) which made alliances with the lions, or nations. (Calmet)_...
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...
He says next, _that their mother lay down among lions_, alluding to the people’s origin from lions, as we said before, when the Prophet calls Judea the descendant of Canaan, and the sister of Sodom an...
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...
AND SAY, WHAT [IS] THY MOTHER?.... That is, say so to the then reigning prince, Zedekiah, what is thy mother like? to what is she to be compared? by whom is meant, not the royal family of David only,...
And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. Ver. 2. _What is thy mother?_] Whereby is meant thy city of Jerusalem and people of the...
_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...
and say, What is thy mother? the address here referring to the house of David in general, specifically to Jerusalem, as capital of the nation. A LIONESS, royal, powerful, with the nature of a lion; SH...
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...
What resemblance shall I use to set out the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes? an unhappy mother of unhappy children! Or, Alas! thy mother, &c. THY; one of these was upon th...
Ezekiel 19:2 say H559 (H8804) mother H517 lioness H3833 down H7257 (H8804) lions H738 Among H8432 lions...
“What was your mother? - a lioness, In the midst of the lions she couched - rearing her whelps, And she brought up one of her whelps - he became a young lion, And he learned to catch the prey - 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...
Isaiah 11:6; Isaiah 5:29; Job 4:11; Nahum 2:11; Nahum 2:12;...
What — What resemblance shall I use to set out the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes? Thy — One of whom was upon the throne at once, and therefore the prophet speaks to one...