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<p id="Chapter19" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 19
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<p id="Eze19_1"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',19,'1-14');">Eze 19:1-14</a>. ELEGY OVER THE FALL OF DAVID'S HOUSE.
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<p>There is a tacit antithesis between this lamentation and that of the Jews for their own miseries, into the causes of which, however, they did not inquire.
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<p><b>1. princes of Israel</b>—that is, Judah, whose "princes" alone were recognized by prophecy; those of the ten tribes were, in respect to the theocracy, usurpers.
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<p id="Eze19_2"><b>2. thy mother</b>—the mother of Jehoiachin, the representative of David's line in exile with Ezekiel. The "mother" is Judea: "a lioness," as being fierce in catching prey (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',19,3);">Eze 19:3</a>), referring to her heathenish practices. Jerusalem was called Ariel (the lion of God) in a good sense (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,1);">Isa 29:1</a>); and Judah "a lion's whelp...a lion...an old lion" (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',49,9);">Gen 49:9</a>), to which, as also to <a onclick="return mV('Num',23,24);">Num 23:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Num',24,9);">24:9</a>, this passage alludes.
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<br><br><b>nourished...among young lions</b>—She herself had "lain" among lions, that is, had intercourse with the corruptions of the surrounding heathen and had brought up the royal young ones similarly: utterly degenerate from the stock of Abraham.
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<br><br><b>Lay down</b>—or "couched," is appropriate to the lion, the Arab name of which means "the coucher."
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<p id="Eze19_3"><b>3. young lion</b>—Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, carried captive from Riblah to Egypt by Pharaoh-necho (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,33);">2Ki 23:33</a>).
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<p id="Eze19_4"><b>4. The nations</b>—Egypt, in the case of Jehoahaz, who probably provoked Pharaoh by trying to avenge the death of his father by assailing the bordering cities of Egypt (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,29,30);">2Ki 23:29-30</a>).
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<br><br><b>in their pit</b>—image from the <i>pitfalls</i> used for catching wild beasts (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,11,12);">Jer 22:11-12</a>).
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<br><br><b>chains</b>—or hooks, which were fastened in the noses of wild beasts (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze019.html#Eze19_9">Eze 19:9</a>).
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<p id="Eze19_5"><b>5. saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost</b>—that is, that her long-waited-for hope was disappointed, Jehoahaz not being restored to her from Egypt.
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<br><br><b>she took another of her whelps</b>—Jehoiakim, brother of Jehoahaz, who was placed on the throne by Pharaoh (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,34);">2Ki 23:34</a>), according to the wish of Judah.
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<p id="Eze19_6"><b>6. went up and down among the lions</b>—imitated the recklessness and tyranny of the surrounding kings (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,'13-17');">Jer 22:13-17</a>).
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<br><br><b>catch...prey</b>—to do evil, gratifying his lusts by oppression (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,37);">2Ki 23:37</a>).
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<p id="Eze19_7"><b>7. knew...desolate palaces</b>—that is, <i>claimed as his own</i> their palaces, which he then proceeded to "desolate." The <i>Hebrew,</i> literally "widows"; hence <i>widowed palaces</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',13,22);">Isa 13:22</a>). VATABLUS (whom FAIRBAIRN follows) explains it, "He knew (carnally) the widows of those whom he devoured" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',19,6);">Eze 19:6</a>). But thus the metaphor and the literal reality would be blended: the <i>lion</i> being represented as <i>knowing widows.</i> The reality, however, often elsewhere thus breaks through the veil.
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<br><br><b>fulness thereof</b>—all that it contained; its inhabitants.
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<p id="Eze19_8"><b>8. the nations</b>—the Chaldeans, Syrians, Moab, and Ammon (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',24,2);">2Ki 24:2</a>).
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<p id="Eze19_9"><b>9. in chains</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',36,6);">2Ch 36:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,18);">Jer 22:18</a>). <i>Margin,</i> "hooks"; perhaps referring to the hook often passed through the nose of beasts; so, too, through that of captives, as seen in the Assyrian sculptures (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze019.html#Eze19_4">Eze 19:4</a>).
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<br><br><b>voice</b>—that is, his roaring.
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<br><br><b>no more be heard upon the mountains</b>—carrying on the metaphor of the lion, whose roaring on the mountains frightens all the other beasts. The insolence of the prince, not at all abated though his kingdom was impaired, was now to cease.
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<p id="Eze19_10"><b>10.</b> A new metaphor taken from the <i>vine,</i> the chief of the fruit-bearing trees, as the <i>lion</i> is of the beasts of prey (see <a onclick="return mV('Eze',17,6);">Eze 17:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>in thy blood</b>—"planted when thou wast in thy blood," that is, in thy very infancy; as in <a onclick="return mV('Eze',16,6);">Eze 16:6</a>, when thou hadst just come from the womb, and hadst not yet the blood washed from thee. The Jews from the first were planted in Canaan to take root there [CALVIN]. GROTIUS translates as the <i>Margin,</i> "in thy quietness," that is, in the period when Judah had not yet fallen into her present troubles. <i>English Version</i> is better. GLASSIUS explains it well, retaining the metaphor, which CALVIN'S explanation breaks, "in the blood of thy grapes," that is, in her full strength, as the red wine is the strength of the grape. <a onclick="return mV('Gen',49,11);">Gen 49:11</a> is evidently alluded to.
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<br><br><b>many waters</b>—the well-watered land of Canaan (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',8,'7-9');">Deu 8:7-9</a>).
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<p id="Eze19_11"><b>11. strong rods</b>—princes of the royal house of David. The vine shot forth her branches like so many scepters, not creeping lowly on the ground like many vines, but trained aloft on a tree or wall. The mention of their former royal dignity, contrasting sadly with her present sunken state, would remind the Jews of their sins whereby they had incurred such judgments.
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<br><br><b>stature</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,11);">Dan 4:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>among the thick branches</b>—that is, the central stock or trunk of the tree shot up highest "among its own branches" or offshoots, surrounding it. Emblematic of the numbers and resources of the people. HENGSTENBERG translates, "among the clouds." But <a onclick="return mV('Eze',31,3,10,14);">Eze 31:3, 10, 14</a>, supports <i>English Version.</i>
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<p id="Eze19_12"><b>12. plucked up</b>—not <i>gradually</i> withered. The <i>sudden</i> upturning of the state was designed to awaken the Jews out of their torpor to see the hand of God in the national judgment.
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<br><br><b>east wind</b>— (See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze017.html#Eze17_10">Eze 17:10</a>).
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<p id="Eze19_13"><b>13. planted</b>—that is, transplanted. Though already "dried up" in regard to the nation generally, the vine is said to be "transplanted" as regards God's mercy to the remnant in Babylon.
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<br><br><b>dry...ground</b>—Chaldea was well-watered and fertile; but it is the condition of the captive people, not that of the land, which is referred to.
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<p id="Eze19_14"><b>14. fire...out of a rod of her branches</b>—The Jews' disaster was to be ascribed, not so much to the Chaldeans as to <i>themselves;</i> the "fire out of the rod" is <i>God's wrath</i> kindled by the perjury of Zedekiah (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',17,18);">Eze 17:18</a>). "The anger of the Lord" against Judah is specified as the cause why Zedekiah was permitted to rebel against Babylon (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',24,20);">2Ki 24:20</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Jdg',9,15);">Jdg 9:15</a>), thus bringing Nebuchadnezzar against Jerusalem.
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<br><br><b>no strong rod...sceptre to rule</b>—No more kings of David's stock are now to rule the nation. Not at least until "the Lord shall send the rod of His strength ("Messiah," <a onclick="return mV('Psa',110,2);">Psa 110:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,1);">Isa 11:1</a>) out of Zion," to reign first as a spiritual, then hereafter as a literal king.
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<br><br><b>is...and shall be for a lamentation</b>—Part of the lamentation (that as to Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim) was matter of history as already accomplished; part (as to Zedekiah) was yet to be fulfilled; or, this prophecy both is a subject for lamentation, and shall be so to distant posterity.
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