Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 19:1

1 MOreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.

And Heb.

Son of Man, Ezekiel, declare what lamentable state the Princes of Israel are falling into, propound it by parable.

'Twas usually exprest in verse, as Ieremiah did in his Lamentations, and as appears 2 Chron. 35.25 but the Prophet is here directed to an Hieroglyphick, as ver. 2.

Though they were Kings, yet, because subject to Babylon, or Egypt, they are by a diminutive, lessening term called Princes, and these were Iehoahaz, Iehoiachim, Iehoiachin, and Zedekiah.

Though they had but the two Tribes under them, yet because some of Israel, that escap't the captivating power of Shalmanezar, were joyned with the two Tribes, they are called by the name of Israel.