## Rashi on Ezekiel Chapter 19

###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:2:1
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**מָה אִמְּךָ לְבִיָּא.** כַּמָּה הָיְתָה חֲשׁוּבָה אִמְּךָ, אַתָּה צִדְקִיָּהוּ, שֶׁנִּמְשְׁלָה לִלְבִיאָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**How was your mother a lioness!** How esteemed was your mother you, Zedekiah—that she was compared to a lioness!


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:2:2
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**בֵּין אֲרָיוֹת.** שָׂרֵי יְהוּדָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Among the lions** The princes of Judah.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:3:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 19:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/19:3:1)

**וַתַּעַל אֶחָד מִגּוּרֶיהָ.** עַל בְּנֵי יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ נֶאֶמְרָה קִינָה זוֹ, שֶׁהָרִאשׁוֹן הוּא יְהוֹאָחָז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And she raised up one of her cubs** This lamentation was said regarding the sons of Josiah. The first is Jehoahaz.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:3:2
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**אָדָם אָכָל.** גּוֹזֵל אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, כִּי יִשְׂרָאֵל נִקְרְאוּ ״אָדָם״, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״וְאַתֵּנָה צֹאנִי צֹאן מַרְעִיתִי אָדָם אַתֶּם״ (יחזקאל לד:לא; קהלת רבה ג:כד); וּלְפִי הַמָּשָׁל, כָּל חַיָּה שֶׁטָּעֲמָה טַעַם בְּשַׂר אָדָם מִתְגָּרֶה בָּאֲנָשִׁים לְעוֹלָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**he devoured men** Heb. אָדָם. He robbed Israel, for Israel is called אָדָם, man, as is stated (below 34:31): “And you are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men,” and according to the allegory, any beast that tasted human flesh will always provoke humans.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:4:1
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**וַיִּשְׁמְעוּ אֵלָיו גּוֹיִם.** פַּרְעֹה מֶלֶךְ מִצְרָיִם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Nations gathered around him** Pharaoh the king of Egypt.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:4:2
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**בְּשַׁחְתָּם נִתְפָּשׂ.** גּוּמִין חוֹפְרִין וּמְכַסִּין פִּיהֶם בְּקַשׁ, וְהַחַיָּה נוֹפֶלֶת בְּתוֹכָהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in their pit he was caught** Heb. בְּשַּׁחְתָם. They dig pits and cover their openings with straw, and the beast falls into them.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:4:3
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**חַחִים.** כְּמִין טַבְּעוֹת בַּרְזֶל, נוֹקְבִין חוֹטְמוֹ וּמוֹשְׁכִין אוֹתָן בָּהֶן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they brought him with hooks** A sort of iron ring. They puncture his nose and pull him with them.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:5:1
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**וַתֵּרֶא.** אִמּוֹ, כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל (ראה רש״י יחזקאל יט:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Now she saw** His mother, the congregation of Israel.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:5:2
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**כִּי נוֹחֲלָה.** לְשׁוֹן חוֹלִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**that she had taken ill** Heb. נוֹחַלָה, an expression of illness (חֹלִי).


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:5:3
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**וַתִּקַּח אֶחָד מִגּוּרֶיהָ.** יְהוֹיָקִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and she took one of her cubs** Jehoiakim.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:5:4
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**כְּפִיר שָׂמָתְהוּ.** מֶלֶךְ; כָּל כְּפִיר שֶׁבַּמִּקְרָא: אֲרִי בָּחוּר וְגִבּוֹר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and made him a young lion** [i. e.,] a king. Every כְּפִיר in Scripture is a young and mighty lion.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:7:1
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**וַיֵּדַע אַלְמְנוֹתָיו.** מְעַנֶּה אֶת הַנָּשִׁים וְהוֹרֵג אֶת בַּעֲלֵיהֶן (ויקרא רבה יט:ו); וְיֵשׁ פּוֹתְרִין **אַלְמְנוֹתָיו** כְּמוֹ אַרְמְנוֹתָיו. **וַיֵּדַע** לְשׁוֹן פִּגּוּר וְהֶרֶס, כְּמוֹ ״וְגָבֹהַּ מִמֶּרְחָק יְיֵדָע״ (תהלים קלח:ו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And he was intimate with their widows** He would rape the women and kill their husbands. Some interpret אַלְמְנוֹתָיו like אַרְמְנוֹתָיו [their palaces] and וַיֵדַע as an expression of destruction and ruin, as in (Ps. 138:6): “and He chastises (יְיֵדָע) the haughty from afar.”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:7:2
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**וְעָרֵיהֶם הֶחֱרִיב.** שֶׁנָּתַן מַס עַל הָאָרֶץ לָתֵת לְפַרְעֹה בְּכָל שָׁנָה, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (מלכים ב כג:לה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and their cities he laid waste** For he levied a tax on the land to give Pharaoh annually, as it is said in II Kings (23:35).


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:8:1
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**וַיִּתְּנוּ עָלָיו גּוֹיִם סָבִיב מִמְּדִינוֹת.** ״וַיִּשְׁלַח ה׳ בּוֹ אֶת גְּדוּדֵי אֲרָם וְאֶת גְּדוּדֵי כַשְׂדִּים וְאֶת גְּדוּדֵי מוֹאָב וְאֶת גְּדוּדֵי בְנֵי עַמּוֹן״ (מלכים ב כד:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And nations gathered around against him from provinces** (II Kings 24:2): “And the Lord incited against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, and bands of Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon.” “And nations gathered against him.”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:8:2
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**וַיִּתְּנוּ עָלָיו גּוֹיִם.** ״וְאִתְכְּנָשׁוּ״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
וַיִתְּנוּ [is rendered by Jonathan as:] and they gathered.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:9:1
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**בַּסּוּגַר.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״בְּקוֹלָרִין״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**into a collar** Heb. בַּסוּגַר. Jonathan rendered: into a collar.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:9:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 19:9:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/19:9:2)

**בַּמְּצֹדוֹת.** לִהְיוֹת כָּלוּא שָׁם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**into strongholds** to be imprisoned there.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:10:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 19:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/19:10:1)

**אִמְּךָ כַגֶּפֶן.** עוֹד זֶה מִן הַקִּינָה (יחזקאל יט:א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Your mother is like a vine** This is still part of the lamentation.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:10:2
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**בְּדָמְךָ.** לְשׁוֹן דִּמְיוֹן וּמָשָׁל; כְּלוֹמַר: דּוֹמֶה אַתָּה לְמִי שֶׁהָיְתָה אִמּוֹ **כַגֶּפֶן שְׁתוּלָה עַל מַיִם**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in your likeness** Heb. בְּדַמְךָ, a term denoting a likeness and an analogy; i.e., you are like one whose mother was like a vine planted by water.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:10:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 19:10:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/19:10:3)

**פּוֹרִיָּה.** כְּמוֹ ״פּוֹרֶה רֹאשׁ״ (דברים כט:יז), לְשׁוֹן עוֹשָׂה פְּרִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**fruitful** Heb. פֹּרִיָה, like (Deut. 29:17): “that bears (פּוֹרָה) gall,” [a word meaning:] produces fruit.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:10:4
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**מִמַּיִם רַבִּים.** עַל יְדֵי מַיִם רַבִּים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from many waters** Through many waters.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:11:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 19:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/19:11:1)

**מַטּוֹת עֹז אֶל שִׁבְטֵי מוֹשְׁלִים.** ״שָׁלְטוֹנִין תַּקִּיפִין וּמַלְכִין גִּבָּרִין״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**sturdy rods for the scepters of the rulers** Powerful rulers and mighty kings.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:11:2
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**עֲבוֹתִים.** אִילָנוֹת שֶׁעֲנָפֵיהֶן מְרֻבִּין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**over between the interwoven branches** The trees whose branches were many.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:12:1
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**וַתֻּתַּשׁ.** כָּל נְתִישָׁה וּנְטִישָׁה הוּא דָּבָר הַמֻּטָּל בְּפִזּוּר עַל פְּנֵי כָּל הָאָרֶץ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And it was scattered** Heb. וַתֻּתֳּשּׁ. Every [expression of] נְתִישָּׁה or נְטִישָּׁה means something that lies scattered upon the face of the whole earth.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:12:2
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**וְרוּחַ הַקָּדִים.** נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the east wind** Nebuchadnezzar.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:12:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 19:12:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/19:12:3)

**הוֹבִישׁ פִּרְיָהּ.** שָׁחַט אֶת בְּנֵי צִדְקִיָּהוּ (מלכים ב כה:ז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**dried up its fruit** He slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:14:1
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**וַתֵּצֵא אֵשׁ מִמַּטֵּה בַדֶּיהָ.** מֵעֲוֹן מְלָכֶיהָ וְשָׂרֶיהָ בָּאַת לָהּ הָרָעָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And fire came out of the staff of its sturdy branches** From the iniquity of its kings and princes, the evil came to it.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 19:14:2
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**קִינָה הִיא וַתְּהִי לְקִינָה.** ״אֵילְיָא הִיא נְבוּאָתָא וּתְהֵא לְאֵילְיָא״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**It is a lamentation, and it will be a lamentation** The prophecy is a lamentation, and it will be a lamentation.