What does Ezekiel 19:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men."
Verse Ezekiel 19:6. _AND HE WENT UP AND DOWN AMONG THE LIONS_] He became a perfect heathen, and made Judea as idolatrous as any of the surrounding nations. He reigned _eleven_ years, a monster of iniq...
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 d...
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...
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 w...
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...
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. AND HE WENT UP AND DOWN AMONG THE LIONS - imitated the recklessness, oppression, i...
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...
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...
וַ יִּתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ בְּ תֹוךְ ־אֲרָיֹ֖ות כְּפִ֣יר הָיָ֑ה וַ יִּלְמַ֥ד לִ טְרָף ־טֶ֖רֶף אָדָ֥ם אָכָֽל׃
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...
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured (e) men. (e) He slew the prophets and them that feared God and ravished their wives....
The Prophet is adverting to the Babylonish captivity, as he had before to that of Egypt, and from both raiseth a subject of lamentation. Reader! it is a very solemn consideration to the people of God,...
Ezekiel confirms what I have already briefly touched on, that this second lion was no less savage and cruel than the former, of which he had spoken. As to the phrase, _he walked among lions_, it means...
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 HE WENT UP AND DOWN AMONG THE LIONS,.... The kings, as the Targum; kings of neighbouring nations, as Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and sometimes he was subject to the...
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men. Ver. 6. _He went up and down, &c._] Of whom he learned to king it, and to lionise i...
_When she saw that she had waited_ This seems to signify that the Jews waited some time before they thought of setting another king over them, hoping, probably, that the king of Egypt would restore un...
OVER THE KINGS...
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...
HE, Jehoiakim, WENT UP AND DOWN: it is said of him, because he continued eleven years on the throne, and so many years, as a lion, tore and devoured; whereas Jehoahaz was taken as soon almost as he fi...
Ezekiel 19:6 roved H1980 (H8691) among H8432 lions H738 lion H3715 learned H3925 (H8799) catch H2963 (H8800) prey H2964 devoured H398 (H8804) men H120 he went - Became a perfect heathen. He reigned e...
“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. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion. And 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 19:10). The whole is presented as a LAMENTATION (v. Ezekiel 19:1), a distinctive form o...
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 Ezekiel 2:10. The former telling nearly the same story...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:5; 2 Kings 24:1; Ezekiel 19:3; Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 26:1; Jeremiah 36:1...
He — Jehoiachim. Went up — He continued eleven years on the throne; whereas Jehoahaz was taken as soon as he first ventured out. The lions — Heathen kings, with whom he entered into leagues. He became...