Ezekiel 19

Ezekiel 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.^[1]

Text

• The original text is written in Hebrew language.
• This chapter is divided into 14 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

• Masoretic Text
  • Codex Cairensis (895 CE)
  • Aleppo Codex (10th century)
  • Leningrad Codex (1008-1009)

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

• Septuagint
• Theodotion version (~AD 180)

Verse 1

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel (KJV)^[2]

• "Lamentation" (Hebrew: קינה qî-nāh; plural: קִינִים in Ezekiel 2:10 or קִּינֽוֹת in 2 Chronicles 35:25): the Hebrew word has a meaning of "elegy, dirge", "a mournful song".^[3][4]

Verse 4

The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit,

and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.^[5]

• "With chains unto the land of Egypt": This is the fate of Jehoahaz (also called "Shallum"^[6][7]) who succeeded his father, Josiah, as king in Jerusalem for 3 months in 609 BC,^[8] before being deposed by Pharaoh Necho II and taken as prisoner to Egypt until his death.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Verse 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.^[14]

• "She took another of her whelps": Two of the last four kings of Judah, Jehoahaz and Zedekiah, was born of the same mother, Hamutal, and the same father, king Josiah,^[15][16] although the "lioness in Ezekiel 9:1-9 generally refers to "Judah"^[17][12]

Verse 9

And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon:

they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.^[18]

• "Brought him to the king of Babylon": This is the fate of Zedekiah (also called "Mattaniah"^[19]), the last king of Judah, who was appointed as king in Jerusalem in 597 BC^[8] by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon to replace Jehoiachin, but later rebelled, was captured and brought before Nebuchadnezzar in Riblah, where his families were killed, he himself was made blind, then taken as prisoner to Babylon until his death.^{[20][21][22][23][12][24]}

See also

• Related Bible parts: Genesis 49, 2 Kings 23, 2 Kings 24, 1 Chronicles 3, 2 Chronicles 36, Jeremiah 1, Jeremiah 22, John 15

Notes and references

Bibliography

• Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1995). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: vol. iv, Q-Z. Eerdmans. 
• Brown, Francis; Briggs, Charles A.; Driver, S. R. (1994). The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (reprint ed.). Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 978-1565632066. 
• Clements, Ronald E (1996). Ezekiel. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664252724. 
• Gesenius, H. W. F. (1979). Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index. Translated by Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux (7th ed.). Baker Book House. 
• Joyce, Paul M. (2009). Ezekiel: A Commentary. Continuum. ISBN 9780567483614. 

External links

Jewish

• Ezekiel 19 Hebrew with Parallel English
• Ezekiel 19 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary

Christian

• Ezekiel 19 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate