Ezekiel 19:6
 Ezekiel 19:6 
New International Version (©2011)
He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He prowled among the other lions and stood out among them in his strength. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he, too, became a man-eater.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He prowled among the lions, and he became a young lion. After he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He prowled around among the lions, became a strong, young lion, and learned to become a hunter-prowler— to eat human beings.

NET Bible (©2006)
He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He became a young lion, and he prowled among the lions. He learned to tear apart the animals he hunted. He ate people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

American King James Version
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

American Standard Version
And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

English Revised Version
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion: and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

World English Bible
He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

Young's Literal Translation
And it goeth up and down in the midst of lions, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:1-9 Ezekiel is to compare the kingdom of Judah to a lioness. He must compare the kings of Judah to a lion's whelps; they were cruel and oppressive to their own subjects. The righteousness of God is to be acknowledged, when those who have terrified and enslaved others, are themselves terrified and enslaved. When professors of religion form connexions with ungodly persons, their children usually grow up following after the maxims and fashions of a wicked world. Advancement to authority discovers the ambition and selfishness of men's hearts; and those who spend their lives in mischief, generally end them by violence.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he went up and down among the lions,.... The kings, as the Targum; kings of neighbouring nations, as Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and sometimes he was subject to the one, and sometimes to the offer: and his going up and down among them may denote his continuance as a king; for whereas his brother reigned but three months, he reigned eleven years:

he became a young lion; an oppressive prince, a cruel and tyrannical king:

and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men; he was notorious for his acts of injustice and arbitrary power; for the detaining the wages of workmen, and for his oppression, violence, and rapine, and shedding of innocent blood, Jeremiah 22:13.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. went up and down among the lions—imitated the recklessness and tyranny of the surrounding kings (Jer 22:13-17).

catch … prey—to do evil, gratifying his lusts by oppression (2Ki 23:37).


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Kingly Power Abused
5Now 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. 6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. 7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. …

2 Kings 24:9 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father had done.
2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD.
Ezekiel 19:5 "'When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.
Ezekiel 19:7 He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it were terrified by his roaring.