Ezekiel 19:2 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

BSB

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ASV

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

KJV

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

He calls the nation itself a lioness: for when he treats of the mother of the people, we know that the offspring is considered. He says, therefore, that the people was full of insolence. The comparison to a lion is sometimes taken in a good sense, as when Moses uses it of the tribe of Judea, as a lion's whelp shall he lie down, (Genesis 49:9,) a, phrase used in a good sense.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Mother - The land of Judea, and Jerusalem, the chief city of it, the royal family of David. Lioness - Tho' chosen of God to execute justice; yet they soon degenerated into the fierce and ravening nature of the lioness. Lay down - Associated, and grew familiar with neighbour kings, called here lions; fierce and bloody.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

24:9, this passage alludes. nourished . . . among young lions--She herself had "lain" among lions, that is, had intercourse with the corruptions of the surrounding heathen and had brought up the royal young ones similarly: utterly degenerate from the stock of Abraham. Lay down--or "couched," is appropriate to the lion, the Arab name of which means "the coucher."

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאָמַרְתָּ֗	ve.'a.mar.Ta	and you will say	H559 →
מָ֤ה	mah	what?	H4100 →
אִמְּךָ֙	'i.me.Kha	[was] mother your	H517 →
לְבִיָּ֔א	le.vi.Ya'	a lioness	H3833 →
בֵּ֥ין	bein	between	H996 →
אֲרָי֖וֹת	'a.ra.Yot	lions	H738 →
רָבָ֑צָה	ra.Va.tzah	she lay down	H7257 →
בְּת֥וֹךְ	be.Tokh	in among	H8432 →
כְּפִרִ֖ים	ke.fi.Rim	young lions	H3715 →
רִבְּתָ֥ה	ri.be.Tah	she reared	H7235 →
גוּרֶֽיהָ׃	gu.Rei.ha	cubs her	H1482 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 58:6
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
leads to
- Psalms 3:7
  Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Hosea 5:14
  For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them…
- Psalms 17:12
  like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
- Job 4:10–11
  The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Psalms 10:15
  Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Through
Zechariah 11:3
Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:44
  Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one…
- Jeremiah 25:34–36
  Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
Through
Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
leads to
- Psalms 34:10
  Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Ezekiel