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Ezekiel, in the prophetic message recorded in Chapter 19, explores two grand metaphors: a) a lioness and her cubs (vs. 1-9,) and b) a mighty vine (vs. 10-14). The lioness and the vine express anthropomorphic feelings of frustration and inadequacy when things do not go as they had anticipated. The challenge is to discover at least one lesson that the prophet is attempting to impart by means of these two analogies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The mention of \u201cEgypt\u201d (v. 4) and \u201cBabylonia\u201d (v. 9,) and the \u201ccapture of young lions\u201d \u2013 leaders of the Jews who were feared by their enemies carried off into captivity, the parable resonates historically.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, the second parable, does not appear to correspond to significant, \u201cstand-alone events,\u201d as did the first parable, despite focusing on the \u201cvine,\u201d with its reference to the bough\u2019s being replanted in an arid, desert environment (v. 13), that some have compared to the Diaspora.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At best, it is as if Ezekiel is offering a follow-up to the scenario that had been presented by Isaiah (5:1-2, 5-6):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My beloved had a vineyard on a fruitful hill. He broke the ground, cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines. He built a watchtower inside it, He even hewed a wine press in it; for he hoped it would yield grapes. Instead, it yielded wild grapes<\/span>\u2026<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>I will remove its hedge, that it may be ravaged; I will break down its wall, that it may be trampled. And I will make it a desolation; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thistles. And I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shelley\u2019s \u201cOzymandius\u201d also comes to mind, and while the poem describes a statue rather than the naturally-occurring phenomenon mentioned by Ezekiel, both share common themes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I met a traveler from an antique land,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who said\u2014\u201cTwo vast and trunkless legs of stone<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And on the pedestal, these words appear:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The lone and level sands stretch far away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or perhaps Robert Burns\u2019 line from \u201cTo a Mouse\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The best-laid schemes of mice and men \u201cgang oft agley (<\/span>have often gone awry<\/span><\/em>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

is the best way to put Ezekiel\u2019s two examples.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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What a lioness was your mother among the lions! Crouching among the great beasts, she reared her cubs (verse 2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 19 is a dirge for the princes of Judah. Ezekiel opens the poem with a reference to the \u201clioness\u201d mother. Israel is often compared to a lion. Judah in particular is referred to as both as a lion and a lioness in Jacob's blessing in Genesis:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judah is a lion\u2019s whelp; On prey, my son, have you grown. He crouches, lies down like a lion, like a lioness \u2014who dare rouse him?\u201d (Gen. 49:9).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is verse 2 of chapter 19 referring to a specific person or something else? Rashi believes that the lioness here is specifically referring to the mother of Zedekiah. She had a strong brood that she prepared to be the kings of Judah. This strong brood ended up failing her. Metzudat David takes it a little further back beyond the mother of Zedekiah to mean the house of Josiah in general. Josiah was the last great king of Judah and yet he could not raise princes that were equal to his stature.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak widens the lens even further and explains that the lioness here is the royal family of Judah in general. The royal family was strong and mighty and yet at the end, the last two kings were both captured and taken away to foreign lands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps one could widen the lens even further building off of Jacob\u2019s blessing in Genesis to say the lioness is all of Judah. The southern kingdom was the most loyal to God after the split between the two kingdoms. It should have been fierce and a defender of God, but instead, Judah fell victim to the same fate as its northern cousins. Ezekiel may link back to the blessing of Jacob with the final verse of the chapter:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fire has issued from her twig-laden branch and has consumed her boughs, she is left without a mighty rod, a scepter to rule with. This is a dirge, and it has become a [familiar] dirge (verse 14).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is a direct unfolding of Jacob\u2019s blessing in Genesis:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler\u2019s staff from between his feet; So that tribute shall come to him. And the homage of peoples be his (Gen. 49:10).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob promises the lioness Judah that a scepter would never leave him. The only one who could reverse this blessing is Judah himself, and he succeeded in turning it into a curse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ezekiel first recited to \u201cthe princes of Israel\u201d a parable of a lioness and her two cubs. One is caught and brought to Egypt (4), while the other is caught and brought to Babylon (9). Just which historical figures do these creatures represent?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Eliezer of Beaugency adds little to our understanding by saying that the lioness mother is \u201cIsrael\u201d (apparently, following the Aramaic Targum), but he did identify the company of lions (2) as, specifically, Judah. Rashi, however, identified it with Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, and Radak, somewhat more generally, with the Judean royal family. However, Radak identified the company of lions with gentile kings. Rashi, Eliezer, and Radak concur in identifying the first cub with Jehoahaz son of Josiah, in conformity with 2 Kings 23:34: \u201cThen Pharaoh Neco\u2026 took Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt, where he died.\u201d Likewise, Rashi also identified the second cub with Jehoahaz\u2019s brother and successor, Jehoiakim (aka Eliakim), who Pharaoh appointed king in his stead (ibid.), and who was taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Chronicles 36:6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next (10 ff.), Ezekiel recited a parable about a vine that was uprooted and its fruits dried up (12), and ended up consumed by fire (14 - see <\/span>our comments to Chapter 15<\/span><\/a>). While Eliezer of Beaugency simply stated \u201cthe kingdom of Judah was made humble, as a vine,\u201d Radak provided greater specificity:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He added another parable, comparing the Congregation of Israel to something else, to a fruitful vine. Such was its condition initially, during the times of the early kings: David, Solomon, and the proper kings who succeeded them\u2026 The \u201cfire that issued from its twig-laden branch\u201d was Zedekiah, who caused the destruction and after whom [Israel, the vine] \u201cwas left without a mighty rod, a scepter to rule\u201d (14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These two parables, dissimilar as they appear, share a common designation as dirges. 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Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy to the kings of Judah in this chapter is conveyed through two parables: in the first, the royal family of Judah is compared to a family of lions; in the second, to a vine. To understand the significance of the first parable, the prophecy is compared with the historical events to which it refers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This second parable does not appear to be directed at any specific king of Judah; rather, it marks the end of the monarchy of the kings of Judah collectively. This parable is noticeably harsher than the previous one. The outcome in the first parable is the capture of the kings alive, whereas in the second parable nothing remains of the vine at all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This prophetic unit is entirely devoid of any mention of God\u2019s Name. The parable does not mention His Name, and \u2013 unlike the other parables that Ezekiel uses to convey his messages \u2013 no interpretation is supplied at its conclusion. This omission is especially glaring given the many instances in which Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy is attributed to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The description of the fate of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, appears as part of a series of prophecies in Chapter 21 that describe the end of the kingdom of Judah. The message it suggests is that the kings of Judah have been arrogant; they have not maintained, along with their role as kings, their subjugation to God and His charge. They have not upheld God\u2019s sanctity. In this way they have brought about the Destruction of Jerusalem and of the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Elton John and Tim Rice, on the one hand, and Naftali Herz Imber, on the other, provide perspectives on Ezekiel\u2019s relationship with the mixture of contemplation, anticipation, and optimism that we call hope.\u00a0 What Imber had to say about hope based on Ezekiel 37 was meaningful, to be sure, but listening to Tim Rice\u2019s words with Elton John\u2019s music while reading Ezekiel 19 adds more nuance to the topic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel 37 tells us about the mass of dry bones that express a lack of any hope.\u00a0 Imber takes their words -- \u201cavda tikvatenu<\/em>,\u201d \u201call our hope is lost\u201d \u2013 and, in keeping with the divine command to Ezekiel to tell the bones that their redemption will come, adds words to create a poem that became Israel\u2019s national anthem, articulating the powerful but simple message that hope has actually not yet been lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 19 of Ezekiel references hope in a different context.\u00a0 Here Ezekiel tells us of a mother lion\u2019s reaction when, distraught about the capture of one of her cubs (referring according to many commentators to Jehoahaz, the deposed king of Judea), she has \u201clost her hope,\u201d \u201cavda tikvata<\/em>.\u201d Knowing that the unfortunate little lion isn\u2019t the only one in the pride, the feline matriarch nudges a different cub \u2013 this one perceived as one or another of the other Judean kings \u2013 to the top of the heap.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the John-Rice hit \u201cThe Circle of Life\u201d from the Broadway show <\/span>The Lion King,<\/span><\/i> the rock stars\/Bible-scholars-despite- themselves turn the verse around (unknowingly, we might presume), sharing the thought that \u201cin the circle of life . . . it\u2019s the band of hope.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The song invites us to consider in lion-inspired terms the idea that we all work toward our respective destinies even though we don\u2019t know what life has in store for us and even as we recognize that we can\u2019t ever accomplish the entire task that faces us. Against the echo of this big-cat pop-philosophy, Ezekiel 19 has us wonder about the fickle mother that pins her hope first on one of her offspring and when that one falls short in the face of challenges turns on a dime to another one.\u00a0 What is hope, if it can be so easily lost?\u00a0 What is hope if it\u2019s conditioned on the strength and luck of someone whom we imagine, maybe without basis, will prevail on our behalf?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rice and John leave us with a thought that should discourage us from being too hard on Ezekiel\u2019s confused and bitter lion mom, reminding us that \u201c[t]here\u2019s\u2026 [m]ore to find than can ever be found.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ezekiel 19 begins and ends with one goal in mind: \u201cAs for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel \u2026This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation\u201d (v. 19:1, 14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

10 out of 18 appearances of the word lamentation in the Tanakh appear in Ezekiel. Here, he utters a lament for the fallen kingdom of Judah, the great lioness. She reared her cubs to be great lions, to catch prey and devour humans, but the nations are afraid of the power that they would wield, and capture the young cubs instead. Ezekiel makes historical references to Jehoahaz, who was deported to Egypt (2 Kings 23) and Jehoiachin and Zedekiah, both deported to Babylon as a punishment for or warning against rebellion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The lament then transitions abruptly to Judah as a great vine that is destroyed \u2013 plucked up, cast down, dried, stripped of fruit, consumed by fire, and transplanted elsewhere \u2013 symbolizing the various tragedies Judah suffered (armed conflict, warfare, famine, death, being conquered, exile).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is interesting that despite his frustration with the ineptness of Judah's leaders, Ezekiel continues to view Judah as the lion, the king of the jungle. It is likely that Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's famous poem,<\/span> \u201cHa-Aryeh ba-Soogar\u201d<\/span><\/i> (\u201cThe Lion in the Cage\u201d) reflects Ezekiel's imagery, with a twist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the poem, Rav Kook describes a family of lions living in a cage. Ironically, it is the young spirited cubs, who were born in captivity, who enjoy their lives behind bars. Only one lion, an elderly weak creature, sits depressed. The young ones cannot comprehend why the old one is so morose \u2013 they surely have enough food and plenty of room to frolic, until the elder lion discloses the meaning behind his unhappiness:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a world full of light,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Where freedom and liberty prevail.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>There is a vast forest tall with trees<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>And stately with mighty cedars.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>The fragrance is refreshing<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>And free animals abound.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>When I was your age, my children,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>I ruled the forest with pride and might<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>And all bowed before me.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>If not for my pursuers<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>who broke my bones,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>and this cramped cage\u2014<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>I would still rule the forest,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>And you too would be free and proud.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

The words of the Old One<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>strengthened the cubs\u2019 heart,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>and with the might of lions<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>they began to break down the cramped cage.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>With claws and jaws and the roar of lions<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>they frightened away their smug captors.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>With a mighty spirit<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>imbued with the delight of the forest<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>they shattered the walls of the cramped cage.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>The Old One was suddenly alive,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>his broken bones healed with joy.<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Rebuking his enemies, he and his cubs returned<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>and established the kingdom of the forest.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(translation<\/span> by Rabbi Bezalel Naor<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Harrowed their bastions<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>The Hebrew seems to say \u201cknew.\u201d Many interpreters, medieval and modern, understand it in the sexual sense, meaning \u201crape\u201d (although, despite its sexual sense, it is not a verb used for rape). [JPS has: \u201cravished their widows\u201d]. Its object in the received text is <\/span>\u2018almenotaw<\/span><\/i>, \u201ctheir [literally, its] widows.\u201d All this seems improbable. <\/span>\u2018Almenotaw<\/span><\/i> has been emended here to \u2018<\/span>armenotaw<\/span><\/i>, \u201ctheir bastions.\u201d The verb is understood in the sense in which it is used in Judges 8:16. The verb as it appears in Judges is in a different conjugation, but the Masoretic vocalization here may be mistaken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cMother\u2019s Day-\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d4\u05d0\u05dd\u201d<\/a> by Cameron Wheeler: How should we treat our mothers?<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Ezekiel 19","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"19","chapter_main_number":"471","date":"20270620","wall_id":"471"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":12,"id":"73982","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 19 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 19","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-19","old_id":"73982","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"471","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Deciphering the dirge<\/em>. The parable speaks of the kingship of the House of David. But who are the kings? Here\u2019s some information about the last kings of Judah that will help to figure this out. Jehoahaz reigned in Judah for only three months, and then was taken to Egypt as a political prisoner for the rest of his life. His brother Jehoiakim replaced him. He reigned for 11 years and died during the rebellion against Babylonia. His son Jehoiachin reigned for three months, and then was exiled to Babylonia. Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, the brother of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, reigned for 11 years, and was exiled to Babylonia after the destruction of Jerusalem. If you come up with more than one possible answer for the identity of the second royal lion cub in the chapter, your not alone.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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