Chains - See the marginal rendering to Ezekiel 19:9 and Isaiah 27:9, note.

Another - (Ezekiel 19:5) Jehoiachin, wh…

Ezekiel confirms what I have already briefly touched on: that this second lion was no less savage and cruel than the former one he had described. R…

And he went up and down among the lions The kings, as the Targum; kings of neighbouring nations, as Pharaoh king of Egypt…

Ezekiel is to compare the kingdom of Judah to a lioness. He must compare the kings of Judah to a lion's whelps; they were cruel and oppressive to t…