Ezekiel 19:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now take thou up a lamentation for the prince of Israel

²⁹ In those days when Pharao Nechao king of Egypt was going up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates, Josias went out to meet him. And Nechao slew him at Mageddo when he saw him. ³⁰ And his servants took him up mortally wounded at Mageddo and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Joachaz son of Josias and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

³⁴ and having made Eliakim son of Josias, king of Juda, king over them in the room of his father Josias, Pharao Nechao changed his name to Joakim; and he took Joachaz and carried him to Egypt, and he died there.

⁶ And Joakim slept with his fathers, and Joachim his son reigned in his stead.

¹² Joachim king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he and his servants and his mother and his chiefs and his officers; and the king of Babylon in the eighth year of his reign, took him,

⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued him and overtook him at Araboth of Jericho. When all his army was dispersed from about him, ⁶ they took the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Reblatha, and he pronounced sentence against him. ⁷ And when he had slain his sons before his eyes, he put out the eyes of Sedekias and bound him with chains, and carried him to Babylon.

²⁵ And Jeremias composed a song of lamentation for Josias, which all the heads of families, both men and women, sung over him, and which they continue to sing to this day; for they established it for an ordinance to Israel. And behold it is written among the funereal odes.

³ And the king carried him with him to Egypt, and imposed on the country a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

⁶ So Nabuchodonosar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and bound him with fetters of brass, and sent him away to Babylon;

¹⁰ and at the return of the year, Nabuchodonosar sent and brought him to Babylon, together with the most precious utensils of the house of the Lord, and made Sedekias, his father's brother, king over Juda and Jerusalem.

¹ O that my head were water! and mine eyes a fountain of tears! That I might weep day and night for this people of mine; for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁰ Take ye up a lamentation for the mountains, and for the paths of the wilderness, a song of woe; for such is the desolation that there are no men, nor is there a sound of existence heard from birds of the air, nor from cattle. They were confounded. They are fled.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord, Call the mourning women and let them come; send for the well instructed and let them utter a plaintive sound ¹⁸ and take up a mournful lamentation for you: and let your eyes collect tears, and your eye lids gush out water.

¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed. ¹⁸ [J] Say to the king and the rulers: Humble yourselves and sit on the ground; for from your head is taken your crown of glory.

¹⁰ Weep not for him who is dead, nor utter lamentations for him, weep bitterly for him who is going away; for he shall never return, nor see any more his native country. ¹¹ For thus saith the Lord respecting Sellem son of Josias, who reigned in the room of his father and who is gone from this place; he shall not return hither any more: ¹² but in the place to which I have transported him, there he shall die and this land he shall see no more.

¹⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord respecting Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man, they shall not utter for him the lamentation "Alas Brother" nor shall they bewail him saying, "Alas lord" ¹⁹ He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; being blotted out he shall be cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁸ Jechonias is dishonoured like a vessel which is useless, because he is hurled away and cast into a land which he knew not.

³⁰ record the chieftain himself as a man of low rank, exiled by the voice of a herald; for no increase from his seed shall sit on the throne of David, nor any more be chief in Juda.

¹ "Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When they shall no more say, "As the Lord liveth who brought up the house of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, " but, "As the Lord liveth who gathered all the seed of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries whither he had driven them and reestablished them in their own land" the Lord shewed me two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda and the chiefs and the artisans and the prisoners of war and the rich men from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon.

⁸ But like those bad figs which for their badness cannot be eaten, thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver up Zedekias king of Juda and his nobles and the remnant of Jerusalem; them who are left in this land and them who dwell in Egypt.

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes. He slew also all the chiefs of Juda at Deblatha. ¹¹ Then he put out the eyes of Sedekias and bound him with chains. And the king of Babylon led him to Babylon and committed him to the slave prison where he continued till the day of his death.

²⁵ and a eunuch who was over the men of war, and seven men of renown who attended in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the armies, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty chief men, of the people of the country, who were found in the city. ²⁶ These Nabuzardan the chief cook, took and brought to the king of Babylon at Deblatha. ²⁷ And the king of Babylon slew them at Deblatha in the land of Aimath.

²⁰ In their slaughters is comprehended the breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."

¹² Our chiefs were hanged up by their hands; our elders were held in no esteem.

¹⁰ and he unfolded it before me and there were writings on it on both sides. And the writings were funeral odes and songs of woe.

¹⁴ a fire hath issued forth from a rod of her choice shoots, and consumed her and she hath no more in her a sceptre of power. The tribe is become a parable in the song of Woe and shall be for a subject of lamentation.

¹⁷ And they will take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, "How art thou destroyed from the sea, renowned city! which didst impress the terror of thee on all who inhabit its shores!

² Therefore, son of man, take up a lamentation for Sor

³² and their children will take up a lamentation for thee a peculiar song of Woe for Sor"

¹⁶ It is a song of Woe and thou shalt sing it mournfully, and the daughters of the nations shall bewail Egypt, and over all her strength pour forth this plaint, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹⁸ Son of man, sing a song of Woe over the strength of Egypt, when the nations shall thrust down her daughters; shall thrust them down dead to the depth of the earth; to them who are going down into the pit;