And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
Ver. 3. And she brought up one of her whelps.] This was Jehoahaz.
It became a young llon.] Cunning and cruel, and having never a good property, though the son of good Josiah; who might better have said than that pope did of his wicked son, Caesar Borgia, Haec vitia me non commonstratore dedicit, He never learned it of his father.
It devoured men.] He was a very cannibal to his subjects, and made no more conscience to undo a poor man, to seek and suck his blood, than to eat a meal's meat when hungry. Psa 14:4