King James Version
Ezekiel 19:8 in the King James Version says “Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their ...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.”
Ezekiel 19:8 · KJV
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
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. their desolate: or, their widows the fulness: or, all it containeth
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
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. in chains: or, in hooks
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood , planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. in: or, in thy quietness, or, in thy likeness
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above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“Then the nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“against him on every side”
H5439(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
“from the provinces”
H4082properly, a judgeship, i.e., jurisdiction; by implication, a district (as ruled by a judge); generally, a region
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“over him he was taken”
H8610to manipulate, i.e., seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably
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