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Ezekiel 19 — Sermon Preparation
A lament portrays Israel's princes as young lions taken captive and a once-fruitful vine now uprooted and burned. Below is a research summary for Ezekiel 19, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 14
- verses
- 157 / 97
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 12
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Ezekiel 19 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כְּפִיר | kᵉphîyr | H3715 | 4 | village, young lion |
| קִינָה | qîynâh | H7015 | 3 | dirge |
| מַטֶּה | maṭṭeh | H4294 | 4 | branch, extending |
| עֹז | ʻôz | H5797 | 3 | strength, force |
| גּוּר | gûwr | H1482 | 3 | cub, lion |
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 4 | eat |
| חָח | châch | H2397 | 2 | ring |
How preachers through history handled this text
12 public-domain excerpts on Ezekiel 19, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the 17th, to foretel and lament the ruin of the house of David, the royal family of Judah, in the calamitous exit of the four sons and grandsons of Josiah--Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah, in whom that illustrious line of kings was cut off, which the prophet is here ordered to lament, ver. 1. And he does it by similitudes. I. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 4 (Isaiah to Malachi), on Ezekiel 19:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Ezek 19:4
- Babylon 1— Ezek 19:9
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