The prophet must take up a lamentation for them that is, he must describe their lamentable fall as one that did himself lay it to heart, and desired that those he preached and wrote to might do so to. The kings of Judah are here called princes of Israel for their glory was diminished and they had become but as princes, and their purity was lost they had become corrupt and idolatrous as the kings of Israel, whose ways they had learned. 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 eclipsing and extinguishing of it are justly lamented by all who know what value to put upon the covenant of our God, as we find, after a very large account of that covenant with David (, &c.), a sad lamentation for the decays and desolations of his family ( ): But thou hast cast off and abhorred, hast made void the covenant of thy servant and profaned his crown, &c. 9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. 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. 4 The nations also heard of him he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey it devoured men. 1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. Eze 19:2 | MHC | STEP | The Fall of the Royal Family Fall of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim.

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