Ezekiel 19:4
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
American King James Version (AKJV)
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And 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.
Webster's Revision
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
World English Bible
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
English Revised Version (ERV)
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit: and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
Clarke's Ezekiel 19:4 Bible Commentary
The nations also heard of him - The king of Egypt, whose subjects were of divers nations, marched against Jerusalem, took Jehoahaz prisoner, and brought him to Egypt. Thus: -
He was taken in their pit - Here is an allusion to those trap-pits digged in forests, into which the wild beasts fall, when the huntsmen, surrounding a given portion of the forest, drive the beasts in; by degrees narrowing the inclosure, till the animals come to the place where the pits are, which, being lightly covered over with branches and turf, are not perceived, and the beasts tread on them and fall in. Jehoahaz reigned only three months before he was dethroned by the king of Egypt, against whom it is apparent some craft was used, here signified by the pit, into which he fell.
Barnes's Ezekiel 19:4 Bible Commentary
Chains - See the marginal rendering to Ezekiel 19:9 and Isaiah 27:9, note.
Wesley's Ezekiel 19:4 Bible Commentary
19:4 The nations - The Egyptians heard what he did.