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EGYPT - The kings of Judah played alternately Egypt against Babylon,
and Babylon against Egypt. Jehoahaz was displaced by Necho for
Jehoiakim, who then turned to the Chaldaeans, and afterward rebellin...
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In Ezekiel 23:1 Samaria and Jerusalem are called two sisters, Aholah
and Aholibah, in their ungodly relation with Assyria and Chaldea.
Aholah means “her tent.” Aholibah, “my tent is in her.” The
latte...
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EZEKIEL 23. FATAL ALLIANCE WITH FOREIGNERS. This is the third and last
of the three great indictments (Ezekiel 16, 20) which draw their
material from the past rather than (as Ezekiel 22) from the pres...
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CALLING TO REMEMBRANCE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the
Cause), App-6, for the desiring of her former idolatries.
HARLOT. Put for idolatress.
IN. Some codices read "from", as in Ezekiel 2...
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Judah being situated between the two great empires of Babylon and
Egypt and coveted by both, was naturally a hotbed of intrigue by
partizans on both sides. The influence of the Egyptian party was grea...
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YET SHE MULTIPLIED, &C.— Instead of one calf they would have two;
and so favourite a superstition were the calves of Dan and Beth-el,
that they kept their ground against all those general reformations...
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C. Jerusalem's Prostitution 23:11-21
TRANSLATION
(11) And her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became corrupt in her
doting more than she, and in harlotries more than the harlotries of
her sister. ...
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THE UNCHASTE SISTERS, OHOLAH AND OHOLIBAH
The idolatries and foreign alliances of Jerusalem and Samaria are here
described under the same strong figure which is used in Ezekiel 16.
Oholah (Samaria) an...
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EGYPT] Like Samaria, Jerusalem went back to her first seducers.
Intrigues with Egypt were frequent from the days of Hezekiah onwards
(Isaiah 30:31), and it was trust in Egypt which led to Zedekiah's
r...
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EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’
THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 23
* The *Lord had made special promises to *Israel. Those...
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וַ תַּרְבֶּ֖ה אֶת ־תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ לִ
זְכֹּר֙...
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OHOLA AND OHOLIBAH
Ezekiel 23:1
THE allegory of chapter 23 adds hardly any new thought to those which
have already, been expounded in connection with chapter 16 and chapter
20. The ideas which enter...
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The next prophecy dealt with the sins of Samaria and Jerusalem under
the figures of two women, Oholah and Oholibah. The prophet first
described their sins. Samaria was charged with unfaithfulness in h...
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_Remembering, or "causing to be remembered" by God, who seemed to have
forgotten those ancient scenes of wickedness, chap. xxi. 24._...
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The Reader will enter into the beauties of this Chapter, and the
design of it also, if he takes with him the consideration all the way
along as he reads it, that the whole scope of the Chapter is to s...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23.
Chapter 22 recapitulates the sin of Jerusalem, of her prophets, her
priests, and her princes. The eye of God sought for some one to stand
in the ga...
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YET SHE MULTIPLIED HER WHOREDOMS,.... Though the Lord frowned upon the
Jews in the times of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, yet still they went on,
and increased their alliances and idolatries with the Heathe...
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Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days
of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Ver. 19. _In calling to mind the sins of her youth._] This w...
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_And the Babylonians came to her_, &c. The metaphor of representing
idolatry by the inordinate lust of adultery is still carried on. _And
her mind was alienated from them_ She quickly grew weary of th...
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THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
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Yet, in spite of this experience, which should have sobered her, SHE
MULTIPLIED HER WHOREDOMS, IN CALLING TO REMEMBRANCE THE DAYS OF HER
YOUTH, the lusts she had then practiced, WHEREIN SHE HAD PLAYED...
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YET, Heb. _And._ MULTIPLIED; added more and greater to her former sins
of idolatry and whoredoms, and persisted in them. IN CALLING TO
REMEMBRANCE: this may refer either to the Jewish nation rememberi...
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Ezekiel 23:19 multiplied H7235 (H8686) harlotry H8457 remembrance
H2142 (H8800) days H3117 youth H5271 harlot H2181
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“Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth
in which she had played the harlot in Egypt, and she doted on their
paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issu...
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CONTENTS: Parable of Aholah and Aholibah. Sentence passed upon Judah.
CHARACTERS: Ezekiel, Aholah, Aholibah.
CONCLUSION: Whatever creature we dote upon we make an idol of, and
what we make an idol o...
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Ezekiel 23:2. _There were two women, the daughters of one mother._
Samaria and Jerusalem, cities introduced in the female character, as
in Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:48....
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_Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah._
AHOLAH AND AHOLIBAH
I. Sin is self-polluting and therefore self-destroying. Constant
contact with sin will pollute the conscience, and render it powerless...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:1 The allegory of the unfaithful sisters
parallels ch. Ezekiel 16:1. Jerusalem’s destruction is depicted as
yet more just and certain in light of the judgment that befell he
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:19 Usually, REMEMBERING THE DAYS OF
one’s YOUTH means that a person has come to his or her senses (e.g.,
Ezeki
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(Ezekiel 23:11.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The spiritual adultery of Judah with Assyria, in
which she surpasses Samaria in her iniquity.
Ezekiel 23:11. “SHE WAS MORE CORRUPT IN HER INORDINATE LOVE.”
“Judah w...
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EXPOSITION
After another pause, the prophet enters on another elaborate parallel,
after the pattern of Ezekiel 16:1; but with a marked variation. There
we have the history of one harlot, _s.c. _of Isr...
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Now in chapter 23:
The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Son of man there were
two women, who were the daughters of one mother: Now they committed
whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whored...
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Amos 4:4; Ezekiel 16:22; Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel 16:29; Ezekiel 16:51;
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By — Remembering her idolatries in Egypt, her alliance with it in
days past, which she now resolved to act over again....