Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Ezekiel 23:2
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
There were two women, the daughters of one mother - Israel and Judah, one nation by birth from the same ancestress, Sarah.
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
There were two women, the daughters of one mother - Israel and Judah, one nation by birth from the same ancestress, Sarah.
Verse Ezekiel 23:2. _SON OF MAN, THERE WERE TWO WOMEN_] All the Hebrews were derived from _one source_, Abraham and Sarah; and, till the schism under Rehoboam, formed but one people: but as these ten...
OF ONE MOTHER - Israel and Judah were branches of the same stock....
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...
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...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. TWO WOMEN. Two sisters, representing respectively Samaria and Jerusalem....
The two kingdoms are already called sisters, Jeremiah 3:7. Cf. Ezekiel 16:46....
THERE WERE TWO WOMEN, &C.— The Hebrews, derived from one source, born of Abraham and Sarah, made but one people, and continued united till the separation under Jeroboam. Then the ten tribes being sepa...
II. A SAD HISTORY 23:1-49 In chapter 23 Ezekiel vividly portrays the history of the sister kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Israel is represented here by Samaria, and Judah by Jerusalem. They are allegor...
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...
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...
בֶּן ־אָדָ֑ם שְׁתַּ֣יִם נָשִׁ֔ים בְּנֹ֥ות אֵם...
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...
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...
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one (a) mother: (a) Meaning, Israel and Judah who both came out of one family....
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...
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...
SON OF MAN, THERE WERE TWO WOMEN,.... Or two nations and kingdoms, the kingdom of Israel or the ten tribes, and the kingdom of Judah or the two tribes. So the Targum, "son of man, prophesy concerning...
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: Ver. 2. _There were two women._] This is the same in effect with Ezekiel 16:1,63, but there more plainly, here parabolically expressed....
_There were two women, daughters of one mother_ Judah and Israel, two kingdoms. “Countries are commonly represented as mothers of their people, and the inhabitants as their children: so _the daughters...
THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother, namely, Israel and Judah, one nation by descent;...
TWO WOMEN; Judah and Israel, the two kingdoms. DAUGHTERS OF ONE MOTHER; sprung from Sarah; or, as some, daughters of the synagogue. They rose from one family; these two were daughters, that is parts,...
Ezekiel 23:2 Son H1121 man H120 two H8147 women H802 daughters H1323 one H259 mother H517 two -...
THE TWO DAUGHTERS. “The word of Yahweh came again to me saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. And they committed whoredoms in Egypt. They committed whoredoms in their...
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...
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....
_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...
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
THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH REPRESENTED UNDER THE FIGURE OF TWO HARLOTS. (Chap 23) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Samaria and Jerusalem are the capitals and representations of the two kingdoms Israel and Judah....
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...
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...
Ezekiel 16:44; Ezekiel 16:46; Jeremiah 3:7...
Two women — Judah, and Israel, two kingdoms....