Ezekiel 19:4

The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. THE NATIONS ALSO HEARD OF HIM - Egypt, in the case of Jehoahaz, who probably provoked Pharaoh by trying to avenge the death of his father by assailing the bordering cities of Egypt (). HE WAS TAKEN IN THEIR PIT - image from the pitfalls used for catching wild beasts (Jeremiah 22:11). THEY BROUGHT HIM WITH CHAINS - or hooks, which were fastened in the noses of wild beasts (see note, )....

He afterwards adds, _that the nations had heard, and were taken in their pit-fall. _Here Ezekiel states that Jehoahaz was hurled from the royal throne, and taken captive by the Egyptians, not only because God had beheld his cruelty, but because the Gentiles had observed it; and it was notorious among them all. In this way he signifies that the cruelty of King Jehoahaz was intolerable: and he mentions him, since all the neighboring nations had heard of his fame, and had conspired to destroy him; and so _he was taken in their pit, and confined by chains, and led away into Egypt. _He means, as I said, Jehoahaz, whom King Pharaoh-nechoh took captive. (2 Kings 23:0.) For when he thought that the Egyptians were distracted by foreign wars, he took the opportunity of collecting an army, and endeavored to seize on certain neighboring cities. But Pharaoh, after he was disengaged from other busines...

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 19:4. _THE NATIONS ALSO HEARD OF HIM_] The king of Egypt, whose subjects were of divers nations, marched against Jerusalem, took _Jehoahaz_ prisoner, and brought him to Egypt. Thus - _HE WAS TAKEN IN THEIR PIT_] Here is an allusion to those _trap-pits_ digged in forests, into which the wild beasts fall, when the huntsmen, surrounding a given portion of the forest, drive the beasts in; by degrees narrowing the inclosure, till the animals come to the place where the pits are, which, being lightly covered over with _branches_ and _turf_, are not perceived, and the beasts tread on them and fall in. Jehoahaz reigned only _three_ months before he was dethroned by the king of Egypt, against whom it is apparent some craft was used, here signified by the _pit_, into which he fell....

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 Jehoahaz. The “waiting” of the people was during the absence of their rightful lord Jehoahaz, a captive in Egypt while Jehoiakim, whom they deemed an usurper, was on the throne. It was not until Jehoiachin succeeded, that they seemed to themselves to have a monarch of their own 2 Kings 24:6. Ezekiel 19:7...

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 ...

THE NATIONS ALSO HEARD OF HIM,.... The neighbouring nations, particularly the Egyptians; the fame of his behaviour reached them; they were informed how he used his own subjects, and what designs he had formed, and what preparations he was making against his neighbours; wherefore they thought it proper to oppose his measures in time, and to hinder him from proceeding and putting his projects into execution, by coming out against him, and fighting with him, as they did: HE WAS TAKEN IN THEIR PIT; alluding to the manner of hunting and taking lions, and such like beasts of prey; which was done by digging pits, and covering the mouths of them with straw, as Jarchi observes, into which in their flight they fell unawares: so Pharaohnecho king of Egypt came out against Jehoahaz, and took him, and put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might reign no more in Jerusalem, after h...

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

TAKEN IN THEIR PIT. As. lion is taken (Psalms 35:7; Psalms 94:13). THEY: i.e. Pharaoh. _necho_ (2 Kings 23:30; 2 Chronicles 36:1). Jeremiah laments his fate. See Jeremiah 22:10....

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