3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. …
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. …
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)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 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 ( Ps. 89:3 , 20 ),…
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