Ezekiel 19:2

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 line, who was then in exile with Ezekiel. The "mother" is Judea: "a lioness," as being fierce in catching prey (), referring to her paganish practices. Jerusalem was called Ariel (the lion of God) in a good sense (); and Judah "a lion's whelp ... a lion ... an old lion" (), to which, as also to ; , this passage alludes. She nourished her whelps among young lions...

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 and Samaria. When he now says, _their mother lay down among lions_, he means that they were shamefully mixed with the corruption of the Gentiles, so that they did not differ from them. But God had chosen them as his peculiar people on the very condition of being separate from all the filth of the Gentiles. There was, therefore, a certain withdrawing of God’s favor _when the mother of the people lay down among the lions, _that is, when they all promiscuously gave themselves up to the perverse morals and superstitions of the Gentiles. He says, _that she brought up whelps_, or young lions, which she produced to these lions; since their origin was impure, being all Abraham’s children, but, as I ha...

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 to be acknowledged, when those who have terrified and enslaved others, are themselves terrified and enslaved. When professors of religion form connexions with ungodly persons, their children usually grow up following after the maxims and fashions of a wicked world. Advancement to authority discovers the ambition and selfishness of men's hearts; and those who spend their lives in mischief, generally end them by violence....

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_; for _lion_ here means _king_....

THY MOTHER - The people represented by Judah. Compare Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24....

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 Ezekiel 2:10. The former telling nearly the same story under a different imagery, the latter a reproduction of the same imagery, with a slightly different application. Lamentation. The same word as that used in Ezekiel 2:10. The whole chapter finds a parallel in Jeremiah's review of Josiah's successors ...

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, or Jerusalem the metropolis of the nation, but the whole body of the people; and so the Targum interprets it of the congregation of Israel. The answer to the question is, A LIONESS; she is like to one, not for her strength and glory, but for her cruelty and rapine; for her want of humanity, mercy, and justice: SHE LAY DOWN AMONG LIONS; that is, kings, as the Targum interprets it Heathen princes, the kings of the nations about them, as of Egypt and Babylon, Jeremiah 50:17; so called for their despotic and arbitrary power, tyranny, and cruelty: now this lioness, the people of the Jews, lay down among them, joined with them in leagues and marriages, and l

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 the monarchy (_cf. Ezekiel 12:1_, Ezekiel 17). EZEKIEL 19:1. JUDAH THE LIONESS. Mother Judah is compared to a lioness, and the kings are her whelps. Ezekiel 19:1 celebrates the sorrowful fate of Jehoahaz (Ezekiel 19:2) and Jehoiachin (Ezekiel 19:5), each of whom was carried into exile after a reign of only three months Jehoahaz to E

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 (Zebudah). See 2 Kings 23:36....

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 young lion; And he learned to catch the prey he devoured men. 4. And the nations heard regarding him he was taken in their pit; And they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt. 1. _princes of Israel_ Probably with LXX. _prince_, as required by the pron. _thy_mother (Ezekiel 19:2). The "prince" is a general term for the king, applicable to one king after another. The lamentation is for the "king" of Judah, represented by one person after another. On "lament" cf. Jeremiah 7:29. 2. _What_is _thy mother?_ Rat