Ezekiel 19:2

And say, what is thy mother?.... That is, say so to the then reigning prince, Zedekiah, what is thy mother like? to what is she to be compared? by whom is meant, not the royal family of David only, or…

Thy mother - The people represented by Judah. Compare Gen 49:9; Num 23:24.

What is thy mother? A lioness - Judea may here be the mother; the lioness, Jerusalem. Her lying down among lions, her having confederacy with the neighboring kings; for lion here means king.

Here are, I. Orders given to the prophet to bewail the fall of the royal family, which had long made so great a figure by virtue of a covenant of royalty made with David and his seed, so that the…

Captivity of Jehoahaz in Egypt

2. How was thy mother a lioness! among the lions;

In the midst of young lions she couched she reared her whelps.

3. And she brought up one of her whelps he grew a…