Ezekiel 19:5

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. NOW WHEN SHE SAW THAT SHE HAD WAITED, AND HER HOPE WAS LOST - i:e., that her long-waited for hope was disappointed, Jehoahaz not being restored to her from Egypt. THEN SHE TOOK ANOTHER OF HER WHELPS - Jehoiakim, brother of Jehoahaz, who was placed on the throne by Pharaoh (), according to the wish of Judah....

We yesterday read over that sentence in which the Prophet says that Judea produced another lion after the former had been captured and led into Egypt. Now this ought to be referred to King Jehoiakim, who was appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar, when he had laid waste a part of Egypt, possessed the whole of Judea, and imposed laws by establishing a king, according to the rights of conquest. But since he also acted perfidiously, he was led away into captivity. The Prophet, therefore, means that the nation did not repent through this single chastisement; nor did it change its disposition, since its mother was a lioness: and not only did it bring forth young lions, but taught them to seize upon their prey till they became grown up. He says, therefore, _that she saw what she had hoped, and her hope was futile_. Some think that the noun “hope” is here repeated by the Prophet — she saw that her ho...

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 19:5. _WHEN SHE SAW THAT SHE HAD WAITED_] Being very weak, the Jews found that they could not resist with any _hope_ of success; so the king of Egypt was permitted to do as he pleased. _SHE TOOK ANOTHER OF HER WHELPS_] Jehoiakim. _AND MADE HIM A YOUNG LION._] King of Judea....

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 ...

NOW WHEN SHE SAW,.... That is, his mother, as the Syriac version expresses it; not his natural mother; as the mother of Sisera looked out and waited for him; but the congregation of Israel, as Jarchi interprets it, the body of the Jewish people: THAT SHE HAD WAITED; for the return of Jehoahaz out of Egypt, which was expected for some time: or, "that she was become sick"; or "weak" w, and feeble, and brought to a low estate by his captivity, and by the tax the king of Egypt put upon her: [AND] HER HOPE WAS LOST; of his return to her any more, and so of being eased of the tribute imposed, and of being restored by him to liberty and glory; for the Lord had declared that he should return no more to his native country, but die in the place where he was carried captive, Jeremiah 22:10; THEN SHE TOOK ANOTHER OF HER WHELPS; or sons, as

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

ANOTHER OF HER WHELPS. Probably Jehoiakim, an other son of Josiah (2 Kings 23:36; 2 Chronicles 36:1). Hardly Jehoiachin, who reigned only three months (2 Kings 24:8). But Jehoiakim reigned eleven years, and his character corresponds with Ezekiel 19:7, here. See 2Ki 23:36. 2 Kings 24:1; Jeremiah 22:11....

Jehoiachin carried captive to Babylon The second young lion is Jehoiachin. The intermediate prince Jehoiakim could not be included in an elegy, because he died in peace. It is the princes of Israel whom foreign nations captured that are lamented. What is touched upon is more the humiliation and sorrow of Israel, the mother lioness, in her young lions being captured, than the fate of the two _persons_. The elegy is a national one, cf. on Ezekiel 19:1. 5. And she saw that she had waited her hope was lost; And she took another of her whelps she made him a young lion. 6. And he walked among the lions he grew a young lion, And he learned to catch the prey he devoured men. 7. And he broke down their palaces he wasted their cities; And the land and its fulness was desolate at the noise of his roaring. 8. Then the natio