Ezekiel 19:3
Good News Translation
She raised a cub and taught him to hunt; he learned to eat people.

New Revised Standard Version
She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.

Contemporary English Version
She taught one of them to hunt, and he learned to eat people.

New American Bible
One cub she raised up, a young lion he became; He learned to tear apart prey, he devoured people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

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Ezekiel 19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

2 Kings 23:31,32 Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:1,2 Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem. . . .

Context
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
2And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions? 3And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.4And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:22
To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

2 Kings 23:34
And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son of Josias, king in the room of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.

Ezekiel 19:2
And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Ezekiel 19:4
And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19:2
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