Ezekiel 19:3

And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. SHE BROUGHT UP ONE OF HER WHELPS: IT BECAME A YOUNG LION - Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, carried captive from Riblah to Egypt by Pharaoh-necho ()....

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 19:3. _SHE BROUGHT UP ONE OF HER WHELPS_] _Jehoahaz_, son of Josiah, whose father was conquered and slain by Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt. _IT LEARNED TO CATCH THE PREY_] His reign was a reign of oppression and cruelty. He made his _subjects_ his _prey_, and devoured their _substance_....

Compare the marginal reference. The short reign of Jehoahaz was marked by violence and idolatry, and was closed by Pharaoh-Necho’s carrying him captive into Egypt....

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 SHE BROUGHT UP ONE OF HER WHELPS,.... Or sons, as the Targum: or, "made him to ascend" t, as the word signifies; to mount the throne; this was Jehoahaz, whom the people of the land took and anointed him, and made him king in the stead of Josiah his father, 2 Kings 23:30; IT BECOME A YOUNG LION; that is, a king, as the same Targum explains it, and a tyrannical and arbitrary one: AND IT LEARNED TO CATCH THE PREY; being instructed by evil counsellors, he soon learned to oppress his subjects, to get their substance from them, and do many evil things, as he is said to do, 2 Kings 23:32; IT DEVOURED MEN; or a man, Adam, the people of Israel, so called,...

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

ONE OF HER WHELPS. Probably Jehoahaz (i.e. Shah lam), the youngest son of Josiah, is intended (1 Chronicles 3:15). CATCH. rend, MEN. Hebrew. _adam_. App-14,...

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

AND SHE BROUGHT UP ONE OF HER WHELPS— This is meant of _Jehoahaz,_ who neglected to follow the good example of his father Josiah, and pursued the evil practices of his wicked predecessors. See his history, 2 Kings 23:32; 2 Kings 23:37....