The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 19:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The two sections of this chapter—Ezekiel 19:1-9, Ezekiel 19:10-14 -are respectively two parables of the same type as that of Ezekiel 2:10. The former telling nearly the same story under a different imagery, the latter a reproduction of the same imagery, with a slightly different application.

Lamentation. The same word as that used in Ezekiel 2:10. The whole chapter finds a parallel in Jeremiah's review of Josiah's successors (Jeremiah 22:10-30). It is noticeable that the princes are described as being of Israel.

The LXX. gives the singular, "the prince," and Hitzig and Ewald adopt this reading, applying it to Zedekiah.

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