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Complete Jewish Bible

Ezekiel 19:3

One of her cubs she singled out: he became a young lion, he learned to seize his prey, he became a man-eater.

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.
Berean Standard Bible
She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Contemporary English Version
She taught one of them to hunt, and he learned to eat people.
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

1 "Moreover, raise a lament for the leaders of Isra'el; 2 say: ‘What a mother you had — a lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions and reared her cubs. 3 One of her cubs she singled out: he became a young lion, he learned to seize his prey, he became a man-eater. 4 The nations sounded an alarm against him; and he was caught in their pit. With hooks they dragged him off to the land of Egypt. 5 When she saw that she had been thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made a young lion of him. 6 He prowled among the lions, grew to be a young lion, learned to seize his prey and became a man-eater. 7 He raped their widows and destroyed their cities; the land and all in it were appalled at the sound of his roaring. 8 The nations set a snare for him from the provinces all around, they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit. 9 With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Bavel to imprison him in a fortress, so that his roar would be heard no more on the mountains of Isra'el.

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 out to them and stood in the doorway, closing the door behind him,
Genesis 19:8
Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Please, let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them what seems good to you; but don't do anything to these men, since they are guests in my house."
Genesis 19:28
and looked out toward S'dom and ‘Amora, scanning the entire plain. There before him the smoke was rising from the land like smoke from a furnace!
Genesis 19:29
But when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Genesis 21:8
The child grew and was weaned, and Avraham gave a great banquet on the day that Yitz'chak was weaned.
Exodus 12:15
"‘For seven days you are to eat matzah — on the first day remove the leaven from your houses. For whoever eats hametz [leavened bread] from the first to the seventh day is to be cut off from Isra'el.
Exodus 12:39
They baked matzah loaves from the dough they had brought out of Egypt, since it was unleavened; because they had been driven out of Egypt without time to prepare supplies for themselves.
Judges 6:19
Gid‘on went in, cooked a young goat and made matzot from a bushel of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them out to him under the pistachio tree and presented them.
1 Samuel 28:24
The woman had a fattened calf in the house; she hurried to slaughter it; then she took flour, kneaded it and baked matzah with it.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha visited Shunem, and a well-to-do woman living there pressed him to stay and eat a meal. After this, whenever he came through, he stopped there for a meal.

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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