Ezekiel 19:1
For the princes — Jehoahaz, Jehoiachim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the princes — Jehoahaz, Jehoiachim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
What — What resemblance shall I use to set out the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes? Thy — One of whom was upon the throne at once, and therefore the prophet speaks to one at a time. Mother — The land of Judea, and Jerusalem, the chief city of it, the royal family of Davi... [ Continue Reading ]
Brought up — Advanced, caused him to take the throne after the slaughter of Josiah. One — Jehoahaz the second son of Josiah. Became — Soon shewed his fierce, cruel, and bloody disposition.... [ Continue Reading ]
The nations — The Egyptians heard what he did.... [ Continue Reading ]
Made him — King, and infused the lion — like maxims into him.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 — Fierce, ravenous, unsatiable.... [ Continue Reading ]
He knew — By taking them, he came to know their places, which are here called, what he made them, desolate. Roaring — By the perpetual violent threats of this cruel king.... [ Continue Reading ]
The nations — Which were tributary to Nebuchadnezzar. Set against — By order of the king of Babylon. The provinces — Which belonged to the Babylonish kingdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy mother — O thou prince of Israel. By the waters — In a very fruitful soil. Full of branches — Full of children; when Josiah died, he left four behind him, beside other branches of the royal line.... [ Continue Reading ]
Strong rods — Many excellent persons endowed with qualifications befitting kings, that they might sway the scepter. Exalted — Above the ordinary majesty of other kingdoms. Thick branches — This kingdom equalled, if not excelled, the greatest neighbour — kingdoms, and her kings exceeded all their nei... [ Continue Reading ]
The east wind — God raised up the king of Babylon to pull up this sinful kingdom. Dried up — Blasted all her fruit, deposed her king, captivated him, his family, and the whole kingdom. Strong rods — All the choice men.... [ Continue Reading ]
She — A few of the branches of the last pruning. In the wilderness — Tho' Babylon was in a very fruitful place, yet the cruelty of the Babylonians, made it to the Jews as terrible as a wilderness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fire — The fire of rebellion, kindled by Zedekiah, who is of the blood — royal. No strong rod — The regal dignity is ceased.... [ Continue Reading ]