Ezekiel 19:8
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the armies of the nations attacked him, surrounding him from every direction. They threw a net over him and captured him in their pit.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the nations from the surrounding provinces set out against him. They spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The surrounding nations attacked. They tossed their net over him, and he was caught in their trap.

NET Bible (©2006)
The nations--the surrounding regions--attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The nations from every region came together against him. They spread their net over him and caught him in their pit.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

American King James Version
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

American Standard Version
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the nations Game together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.

Darby Bible Translation
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

English Revised Version
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces: and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

World English Bible
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

Young's Literal Translation
And set against it do nations Round about from the provinces. And they spread out for it their net, In their pit it hath been caught.

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

Then the nations set against him,.... Or, "gave against him" (y); that is, their voice, as Kimchi; they called to one another, to gather together against him; they gave their counsel against him; they, joined together, agreed, and combined against him, and disposed their armies, and set them in array against him:

on every side from the provinces; Nebuchadnezzar and his auxiliaries, which consisted of the people of the provinces all around, who were brought together, and placed round about Jerusalem, at the siege of it; particularly the bands of the Chaldeans, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites, 2 Kings 24:1;

and spread their net over him; which may be expressive both of the policy, crafty and secret contrivances and designs, of Jehoiakim's enemies; and of their external force and hostile power against him:

he was taken in their pit; which they dug for him, or by the means which they contrived for his ruin, and which they put in execution and effected: the metaphor of a lion is carried on, and the manner of taking one is alluded to, which is commonly in pits, as Pliny (z) says; and the Arabs now dig a pit where lions are observed to enter, and covering it over slightly with reeds, of small branches of trees, they frequently decoy and catch them (a).

(y) "et ediderunt vocem"; Vatablus. (z) "Capere eos ardui erat quondam operis, foveisque maxime". Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16. (a) Dr. Shaw's Travels, p. 172. Ed. 2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. the nations—the Chaldeans, Syrians, Moab, and Ammon (2Ki 24:2).

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Kingly Power Abused
…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. 8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 9And 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 on the mountains of Israel. …

2 Kings 24:11 and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.
Ezekiel 12:13 I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.
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.