Ezekiel 19:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And she [the royal mother-city] brought up one of her cubs [Jehoahaz]; he became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. [II Kings 23:30, 32.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

Common English Bible

³ She singled out one of her cubs and he became a strong young lion; he learned to tear flesh and devour humans.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey and to devour men.

Ezekiel 19:3 Cross References

2 Kings 23:34

Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away; he came to Egypt and died there.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:4

The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19:6

He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured people.

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

Ezekiel 32:2

Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.

Zechariah 11:3

Listen, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Listen, the roar of the lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!

Deuteronomy 33:22

And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s whelp that leaps forth from Bashan.”