Commentary for Ezekiel 19:5

וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ כִּ֣י נֽוֹחֲלָ֔ה אָבְדָ֖ה תִּקְוָתָ֑הּ וַתִּקַּ֛ח אֶחָ֥ד מִגֻּרֶ֖יהָ כְּפִ֥יר שָׂמָֽתְהוּ׃

Now when she saw that she was disappointed, And her hope was lost, Then she took another of her whelps, And made him a young lion.

Now she saw His mother, the congregation of Israel.

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that she had taken ill Heb. נוֹחַלָה, an expression of illness (חֹלִי).

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and she took one of her cubs Jehoiakim.

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