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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 19 - Introduction

Chapter 19 A Lament for The Kings of Judah.

Having faced all Israel up to their personal responsibility Ezekiel now brings the lesson home by writing a lament for the kings of Judah (called ‘the princes of Israel'), Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin. These were the men to whom Israel had looked but in each case they had failed. Israel is likened to a lioness producing cubs, and the cubs are the princes of Judah (Israel). Their fate is then lamented, a fate which was the result of the fact that they ‘did evil in the sight of Yahweh'. This is followed by a poem of the withering of the vine of Israel and the cessation of kingship.

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See also Ezekiel 19 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Ezekiel regarded Zedekiah as an interloper (Ezekiel 17:1 note), therefore he here (in Ezekiel 19:1) passes over Jehoiakim and Zedekiah as mere creatures of Egypt and of Babylon, and recognizes Jehoaha...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Dirge over the princes of Judah The elegy represents the princes of Judah as young lions, reared among lions by the mother lioness, but caught in pits by the nations and carried away. The mother lion...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _A LAMENTATION FOR THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL UNDER THE PARABLE OF LIONS' WHELPS TAKEN IN A PIT; AND FOR JERUSALEM, UNDER THE PARABLE OF A WASTED VINE._ _Before Christ 593._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. When are the prophecies of Chapter s 20-21 to be dated? 2. What historical events probably triggered the utterances in these two Chapter s? 3. In what sense did Ezekiel becom...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (c-0) (The title of this book, 'Ezekiel'), Meaning, 'Strength of God.' captives (d-25) Lit. 'captivity.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XIX. This chapter forms the close of this long series of prophecies, and consists of a lament over the fall of the royal family of Israel and over the utter desolation of the nation itself. It fitly...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 19 The subject matter of this chapter is a lamentation for the princes and people of the Jews, on account of what had already befallen them, and what was yet to come, Ezekiel...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * A parable lamenting the ruin of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim. (1-9) Another describing the desolation of the people. (10-14)...

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