Ezekiel 19:2

Thy mother - The people represented by Judah. Compare Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24.

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 19:2

Arno Geneva Study Bible

And say, What [is] thy (b) mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. (b) That is Jehoahaz's mother, o...
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 Ez...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

thy mother. Probably Hamutal, one of the wives of Josiah, the mother of Shallum (or Jehoahaz) and Zedekiah ( 2 Kings 23:31 and Ezekiel 24:18 ). T...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He says next, that their mother lay down among lions, alluding to the people’s origin from lions, as we said before, when the Prophet calls J...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. What is thy mother? A lioness - Judea...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

What is thy mother? a lioness— Hereby is meant Jerusalem; the lions with which she was familiar, are the kings of the nations; the young lions wh...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. And say, What is thy mother? -...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A Lament for the Royal House of Judah This chapter is a poem in which the measure used for a dirge or elegy is more or less traceable throughout....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Thy mother ] Hamutal, whom some suppose to be meant here, was one of the wives of Josiah, and the mother of Shallum (or Jehoahaz) and Zedekiah ( 2 K...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thy mother. — Mother stands for the whole national community — the theocracy, as is plain from Ezekiel 19:10 . This was represented, since the cap...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1-15 ; Ezekiel 17:1-24 ; Ezekiel 19:1-14 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearanc...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The last section in the prophet's revelation of the righteousness of reprobation consists of his lament over the fallen princes of Judah. He first re...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is a very instructive chapter, especially to Ministers of the Gospel. The Prophet, under the similitude of a lioness bereaved of her whelps, set...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And say, what [is] thy mother ?.... That is, say so to the then reigning prince, Zedekiah, what is thy mother like? to what is she to be compared? b...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. Ver. 2. What is thy mother? ] Wher...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel The expression alludes to the mournful songs sung at funerals. Such a lamentation the prophet is di...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Fall of the Royal Family; Fall of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim. B. C. 593....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What resemblance shall I use to set out the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes? an unhappy mother of unhappy children! Or,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“What was your mother? - a lioness, In the midst of the lions she couched - rearing her whelps, And she brought up one of her whelps - he became a...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

LAMENTATION FOR THE MISERABLE FATE AWAITING THE PRINORS AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL (Chap. 19) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 19:1-9 . The prophet foresees th...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 19:2 . Thy mother was a lioness she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion. These words are cited from Jacob's testamentary...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 19:1 The two sections of this chapter— Ezekiel 19:1-26 , Ezekiel 19:10-26 -are respectively two parables of the same t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Over The Kings
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

and say, What is thy mother? the address here referring to the house of David in general, specifically to Jerusalem, as capital of the nation. A lio...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 11:6-9 ; Isaiah 5:29 ; Job 4:11 ; Nahum 2:11 ; Nahum 2:12 ; Psalms 58:6 ; Zechariah 11:3 ; Zephaniah 3:1-4
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 thr...

² And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 19:2

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 19:2