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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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LEWDNESS... WHOREDOMS. Put here by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the
Cause), App-8, for the punishment due to the idolatry....
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_bear thou … lewdness_ Here "bear" means endure the punishment of
it, Ezekiel 23:49....
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D. The Punishment of Jerusalem 23:22-35
TRANSLATION
(22) Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold I am about
to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom your soul is
alienated, a...
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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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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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לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה
יַ֚עַן ש
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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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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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THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, BECAUSE THOU HAST FORGOTTEN ME,....
His word, worship, and ordinances, and did not attend unto them, but
worshipped strange gods: so the Targum,
"because thou hast...
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and
cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy
whoredoms.
Ver. 35. _Because thou hast forgotten me._] Th...
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_Therefore will I give her cup_, &c. I will make thee drink the same
bitter draught, or experience the same calamity that has fallen upon
her. God's judgments are often compared to a cup of intoxicati...
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therefore, thus saith the Lord God, in once more summarizing His
sentence upon Judah, BECAUSE THOU HAST FORGOTTEN ME, the Lord and
Master of her youth, AND CAST ME BEHIND THY BACK, in the height of
co...
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The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
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THOU HAST FORGOTTEN ME, EZEKIEL 22:12, which is here explained by what
follows; it was a wilful forgetting of God, and voluntary despising
his law, ordinances, worship, favour, and presence; so God is...
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Ezekiel 23:35 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 forgotten H7911
(H8804) cast H7993 (H8686
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A FINAL VERDICT.
“Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh. Because you have forgotten me
and cast me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your
lewdness and prostitution.”
Here is God's f...
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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 23:32 Two further THUS SAYS introductions
frame the final outcomes. The CUP (see v. Ezekiel 23:31) i
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(Ezekiel 23:22.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The transgression of Jerusalem is followed by her
punishment.
Ezekiel 23:23. “PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA.” “From the
circumstance that these names occur in immediate...
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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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1 Kings 14:9; Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 23:45; Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel
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Bear thou — The guilt, I will impute it, the punishment, I will not
pardon it....