Ezekiel 19:1 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 19:1

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

KJV

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ASV

Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

WEB

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

YLT

And thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel,

DBT

And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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35 verses on the floor

Ezekiel 28:12
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Amos 5:1
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Ezekiel 26:17
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
Ezekiel 27:2
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Psalms 76:4
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

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And he does it by similitudes. The kingdom of Judah and house of David are here compared to a lioness, and those princes to lions, that were fierce and ravenous, but were hunted down and taken in nets,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

) to take up a lamentation; and, having done so, he leaves it to be made use of by others. " It is a lamentation to us of this age, and, the desolations continuing long, it shall be for a lamentation to those that shall come after us; the child unborn will rue the destruction made of Judah and Jerusalem by the present judgments.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

princes of Israel--that is, Judah, whose "princes" alone were recognized by prophecy; those of the ten tribes were, in respect to the theocracy, usurpers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

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