Ezekiel 19:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:31-32 : 31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.
  • 2 Chr 36:1-2 : 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.
  • Ezek 19:6 : 6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
  • Ezek 22:25 : 25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.

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    4And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.

    5Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

    6And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

    7And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

  • Ezek 19:2
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    2What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    11Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

    13Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

  • Job 39:29-30
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    29Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

    30Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

  • Gen 49:9
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    9Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

  • Num 23:24
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    24See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

    8I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

  • Jer 2:15
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    15The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

  • Ps 104:21
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    21The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

  • Judg 14:5
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    5Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

  • Hos 5:14
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    14For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

  • Jer 5:6
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  • 2 Kgs 17:25-26
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    25Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

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    10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

  • 1 Kgs 13:25-26
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    3Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

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    38They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

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    16Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

  • Prov 30:30
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    30The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;

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  • Amos 3:4
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    4Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

  • Job 28:8
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    8The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
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