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Ezekiel 19:1 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 19 · verse 1
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,Ezekiel 19:1 · King James Version
Ezekiel 19:1 in context
1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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Here are, I. Orders given to the prophet to bewail the fall of the royal family, which had long made so great a figure by virtue of a covenant of royalty made with David and his seed, so that the eclipsing and extinguishing of it are justly lamented by all who know what value to put upon the covenant of our God, as we…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9