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Ezekiel 19:3

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Lion;   Parables;   Thompson Chain Reference - Truth;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoahaz;   Zedekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Destroy, Destruction;   Funeral;   Pit;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hunting;   Shallum;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoahaz;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Poetry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jehoahaz ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Jehoahaz;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Whelp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lion;   Parable;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Ezekiel;   Hunting;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Whelp;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ariel;   Jehoahaz;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She brought up one of her cubs,and he became a young lion.After he learned to tear prey,he devoured people.
Hebrew Names Version
She brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
King James Version
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
English Standard Version
And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
New American Standard Bible
'When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a young lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured people.
New Century Version
When she brought up one of her cubs, he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the animals he hunted, and he ate people.
Amplified Bible
'When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs, He became a [young] lion, And he learned to catch and tear the prey; He devoured men.
World English Bible
She brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
Legacy Standard Bible
So she brought up one of her cubs;He became a lion,And he learned to tear his prey;He devoured men.
Contemporary English Version
She taught one of them to hunt, and he learned to eat people.
Complete Jewish Bible
One of her cubs she singled out: he became a young lion, he learned to seize his prey, he became a man-eater.
Darby Translation
And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Easy-to-Read Version
One of her cubs gets up. He has grown to be a strong young lion. He has learned to catch his food. He killed and ate a man.
George Lamsa Translation
And one of her whelps grew up and became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; and he devoured men.
Good News Translation
She raised a cub and taught him to hunt; he learned to eat people.
Lexham English Bible
And she raised up one from her cubs; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ate humans.
Literal Translation
And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion and learned to tear the prey; he ate men.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
to spoyle, and to deuoure folke.
American Standard Version
And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Bible in Basic English
And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she brought up one of her whelps, he became a young lion; and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.
King James Version (1611)
And shee brought vp one of her whelps: it became a yong lion, & it learned to catch the pray, it deuoured men.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
One of her whelpes she brought vp, and it be came a lion, it learned to catche the pray and to deuour folke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
English Revised Version
And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion: and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and ledde out oon of hir litle liouns; he was maad a lioun, and he lernyde to take prei, and to ete men.
Update Bible Version
And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured man.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
New English Translation
She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.
New King James Version
She brought up one of her cubs, And he became a young lion; He learned to catch prey, And he devoured men.
New Living Translation
She raised one of her cubs to become a strong young lion. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he became a man-eater.
New Life Bible
She brought up one of her little ones, and he became a lion. He learned to catch his food. He ate men.
New Revised Standard
She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And she reared up one of her whelps - A young lion, he became, And he learned to rend prey. Men, he devoured.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
Revised Standard Version
And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
Young's Literal Translation
And she bringeth up one of her whelps, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.

Contextual Overview

1As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel 2and say: 'What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs. 3She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.4When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt. 5When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. 6He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men. 7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and all who were in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring. 8Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit. 9With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

one: Jehoahaz, made king of Israel instead of Josiah, who became cruel and oppressive.

it became: Ezekiel 19:6, 2 Kings 23:31, 2 Kings 23:32, 2 Chronicles 36:1, 2 Chronicles 36:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:33 - put him 2 Kings 23:34 - he came 2 Chronicles 36:4 - Necho Psalms 10:9 - to catch Jeremiah 22:10 - weep sore Ezekiel 7:23 - a chain Ezekiel 19:5 - another Ezekiel 22:27 - princes Ezekiel 34:3 - ye kill Ezekiel 38:13 - with Ezekiel 45:8 - and my princes Daniel 7:3 - beasts Zechariah 11:3 - a voice Matthew 14:11 - and given Mark 6:24 - said

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them whatever you want. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Genesis 21:8
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
Exodus 12:15
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the yeast from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:39
Since their dough had no yeast, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
Judges 6:19
So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
1 Samuel 28:24
The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she brought up one of her whelps,.... Or sons, as the Targum: or, "made him to ascend" t, as the word signifies; to mount the throne; this was Jehoahaz, whom the people of the land took and anointed him, and made him king in the stead of Josiah his father,

2 Kings 23:30;

it become a young lion; that is, a king, as the same Targum explains it, and a tyrannical and arbitrary one:

and it learned to catch the prey; being instructed by evil counsellors, he soon learned to oppress his subjects, to get their substance from them, and do many evil things, as he is said to do, 2 Kings 23:32;

it devoured men; or a man, Adam, the people of Israel, so called,

Ezekiel 34:31; as the Jews frequently observe; it ate up and destroyed their liberties, privileges, and property.

t ותעל "et ascendere fecit", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal reference. The short reign of Jehoahaz was marked by violence and idolatry, and was closed by Pharaoh-Necho’s carrying him captive into Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 19:3. She brought up one of her whelpsJehoahaz, son of Josiah, whose father was conquered and slain by Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt.

It learned to catch the prey — His reign was a reign of oppression and cruelty. He made his subjects his prey, and devoured their substance.


 
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