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Verse Ezekiel 23:48. _THUS WILL I CAUSE LEWDNESS TO CEASE_]
_Idolatry_; and from that time to the present day the Jews never
relapsed into idolatry....
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The judgment to be executed by the hands of their allies.
Ezekiel 23:45
THE RIGHTEOUS MEN - Or, righteous men. The allies are so called as the
instruments of God’s righteous judgments.
Ezekiel 23:4...
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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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_be taught_ TAKE WARNING (the form _nithpa_., cf. Deuteronomy 21:8)....
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New exposure of the immoralities of Oholah and Oholibah (Ezekiel
23:36), and threat of their punishment (Ezekiel 23:45)
The passage is not a continuation of Ezekiel 23:1, but an independent
descripti...
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E. Further Indictment of the Two Sisters 23:36-49
TRANSLATION
(36) And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, will you judge Oholah and
Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. (37) For they ha...
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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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TO CEASE. — By the removal of the sinners. “All women,” in
accordance with the allegory, means _all nations._ The judgments upon
Israel should be then, and for all time, a conspicuous monument of
God’...
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וְ הִשְׁבַּתִּ֥י זִמָּ֖ה מִן ־הָ
אָ֑רֶץ וְ
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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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Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all (t)
women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
(t) Meaning, all other cities and countries....
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We have here only a continuation of the same melancholy rehearsal of
crimes, of one sister that had been charged also against the other.
The subject is but one, though lengthened so many verses. I wil...
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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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THUS WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE LEWDNESS OUT OF THE LAND,.... There being
no opportunity for it, nor any to commit it; what were not destroyed
by famine, sword, and pestilence, during the siege, were carri...
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Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women
may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Ver. 48. _Thus will I cause lewdness to cease._] Thus, if it may be
done no otherwise....
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_And the righteous men, they shall judge them_ All just judges, yea,
all men that have any sense of common honesty, will condemn their
conduct, and pronounce them deserving of the punishment of
adulte...
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The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
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Thus will I cause lewdness, every form of idolatry, TO CEASE OUT OF
THE LAND, THAT ALL WOMEN, in this case all nations, MAY BE TAUGHT NOT
TO DO AFTER YOUR LEWDNESS....
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CAUSE LEWDNESS TO CEASE: see EZEKIEL 23:27. Hereafter in this land
such-like abominations shall never be committed more, as indeed we do
not read of any such after their return out of this captivity....
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Ezekiel 23:48 lewdness H2154 cease H7673 (H8689) land H776 women H802
taught H3256 (H8739) practice H6213 ...
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“Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women
may be taught not to do after your lewdness.”
This destruction will be a lesson to all women not to indulge in
immoral practises. I...
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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 23:36 Having reached a stopping point, the
oracle restarts, once again naming OHOLAH AND OHOLIBAH (v. Ezekiel
23:36; see note on v....
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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 23:36)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Judah and Samaria are considered as joined
together in their sin and punishment.
Ezekiel 23:37. “THEY HAVE COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND BLOOD IS IN THEIR
HANDS.” “The act...
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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 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Peter 2:6; Deuteronomy 13:11; Ezekiel 16:41;...
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Lewdness — Idolatry. And indeed we do not read of any after their
return out of this captivity....