Ezekiel 19:6
Good News Translation
When he was full-grown, he prowled with the other lions. He too learned to hunt and eat people.

New Revised Standard Version
He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured people.

Contemporary English Version
He hunted with other lions and learned to eat people.

New American Bible
He prowled among the lions, became a young lion; He learned to tear apart prey, he devoured people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

2 Kings 24:1-7 In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:5 Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord his God.

Jeremiah 22:13-17 Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages. . . .

Ezekiel 26:1-21 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

Ezekiel 36:1-38 And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: . . .

he became

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.

Context
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
5But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion. 6And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.7He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.…
Cross References
2 Kings 24:9
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father had done.

2 Chronicles 36:9
Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

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 19:7
He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:5
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