Ezekiel 19:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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.

Ezekiel 19:3 Cross References

2 Kings 23:34

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

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.

Ezekiel 19:4

The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was taken 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 men.

Ezekiel 22:25

Her princes in the midst of her 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 in the midst of her.

Ezekiel 32:2

“Son of man, 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 burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

Zechariah 11:3

Hark, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Hark, the roar of the lions, for the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste!

Deuteronomy 33:22

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