King James Version
Ezekiel 19:4 in the King James Version says “The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.”
Ezekiel 19:4 · KJV
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“also heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“The nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“of him he was taken”
H8610to manipulate, i.e., seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably
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