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 throne at once, and therefore the prophet speaks to one at a time. Mother — The land of Judea, and Jerusalem, the chief city of it, the royal family of David. Lioness — Tho' chosen of God to execute justice; yet they soon degenerated into the fierce and ravening nature of the lioness. Lay down — Associated, and grew familiar with neighbour kings, called here lions; fierce and bloody. Her whelps — Her sons, successors to the crown. Young lions — Either foreign princes and kings, or some of the fierce, unjust, tyrannizing princes at home.
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Ezekiel 19:2
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.