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A Cycle of Unrepentance
Commentators explain that this verse highlights Judah's failure to repent. After God allowed their first king to be taken into captivity as a judgment, the nation didn't turn back to God. Instead, the 'mother lioness' (the nation itself) simply raised up 'another of her whelps' to be another oppressive ruler, showing a deep, systemic corruption.
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Ezekiel
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Albert Barnes
On Ezekiel 19:4–9
18th Century
Theologian
Chains - See the marginal rendering to Ezekiel 19:9 and Isaiah 27:9, note.
Another - (Ezekiel 19:5) Jehoiachin, wh…
Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 19:5
19th Century
Bishop
Another of her whelps.— After the three months’ reign of Jehoahaz, his brother Jehoiakim was appointed king by Pharaoh ([Reference…
John Calvin
On Ezekiel 19:5
16th Century
Theologian
I cannot proceed further.
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Grant, Almighty God—since we are all so depraved by nature that we are not only most deserving of b…
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John Gill
On Ezekiel 19:5
17th Century
Pastor
Now when she saw: That is, his mother, as the Syriac version expresses it; not his natural mother, as the mother of Siser…
Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 19:1–9
17th Century
Minister
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…