◄ Ezekiel 19:4 ►
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Good News Translation
The nations heard about him and trapped him in a pit. With hooks they dragged him off to Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was caught in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Contemporary English Version
When the nations heard of him, they trapped him in a pit, then they used hooks to drag him to Egypt.

New American Bible
Nations heard about him; in their pit he was caught; They took him away with hooks to 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

2 Kings 23:31,33,34 Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:4,6 And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and Jerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with him and carried him away into Egypt. . . .

Jeremiah 22:11,12,18 For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son of Josias the king of Juda, who reigned instead of his father, who went forth out of this place: He shall return hither no more: . . .

Context
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
…3And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. 4And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.5But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.…
Cross References
2 Kings 23:34
And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son of Josias, king in the room of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.

2 Chronicles 36:4
And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and Jerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with him and carried him away into Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains into Babylon.

Ezekiel 19:3
And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

Ezekiel 19:5
But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.

Ezekiel 19:3
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