Ezekiel 19:4 The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

English Standard Version
The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

New American Standard Bible
'Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

King James Bible
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When the nations heard about him, he was caught in their pit. Then they led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.

International Standard Version
The nations heard about him. He had become caught in their trap. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

American Standard Version
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

Darby Bible Translation
And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation
And hear of it do nations, In their pit it hath been caught, And they bring it in with chains unto the land of Egypt.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:34
And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

2 Chronicles 36:4
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 19:3
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:5
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:1-9 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 their own subjects. The righteousness of God is to be acknowledged, when those who have terrified and enslaved others, are themselves terrified and enslaved. When professors of religion form connexions with ungodly persons, their children usually grow up following after the maxims and fashions of a wicked world. Advancement to authority discovers the ambition and selfishness of men's hearts; and those who spend their lives in mischief, generally end them by violence.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. The nations—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 (2Ki 23:29, 30).

in their pit—image from the pitfalls used for catching wild beasts (Jer 22:11, 12).

chains—or hooks, which were fastened in the noses of wild beasts (see on [1049]Eze 19:9).