פירוש על יחזקאל 19:5

Now she saw His mother, the congregation of Israel.

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

and she took one of her cubs Jehoiakim.

and made him a young lion [i. e.,] a king. Every כְּפִיר in Scripture is a young and mighty lion.