George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 23:17
Love. Literally, "of breasts," as Hebrew also signifies. Here it denotes the temples. (Haydock)
Love. Literally, "of breasts," as Hebrew also signifies. Here it denotes the temples. (Haydock)
After Josiah’s death and the usurpation of dominion by the Egyptians, the Babylonians were no doubt welcomed as friends 2 Kings 24:1. But the Jews were soon tired of their alliance and disgusted with...
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...
MIND. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-18,...
_alienated from them_ The figure lies in the revulsion of sated passion; the thing in the weariness of the Babylonian alliance and yoke, cf. ch. 17....
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. ...
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. SHE WAS POLLUTED WITH THEM, AND...
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...
HER MIND (RV 'soul') WAS ALIENATED] Judah under Jehoiakim (2 Kings 24:1) and Zedekiah (2 Kings 24:20) became weary of Babylonian supremacy....
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...
HER MIND WAS ALIENATED. — The original implies the disgust of satiety. Josiah had been the devoted friend of Babylon, and perished in his zeal on its behalf. Judah was then made a dependency of Egypt,...
וַ יָּבֹ֨אוּ אֵלֶ֤יהָ בְנֵֽי ־בָבֶל֙ לְ מִשְׁ
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...
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...
AND THE BABYLONIANS CAME TO HER IN THE BED OF LOVE,.... Entered into alliance with the Jews, and worshipped together in the same idols' temple. Jarchi thinks this refers to the messengers of the king...
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. Ver. 17. _Into the bed of love._]...
_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...
And the Babylonians, gladly availing themselves of this opportunity, CAME TO HER INTO THE BED OF LOVE, in the unholy alliance forbidden by the Lord, AND THEY DEFILED HER WITH THEIR WHOREDOM, with the...
THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
BABYLONIANS: _ Heb._ children of Babel ALIENATED FROM THEM: _ Heb._ tossed or disjointed...
THE BABYLONIANS CAME: the prophet prosecuteth the allegory; the adulteress sent, and invited, and here the Chaldeans comply with it, they came, ambassadors no doubt first to make a confederacy, and th...
Ezekiel 23:17 Babylonians H1121 H894 came H935 (H8799) bed H4904 love H1730 defiled H2930 (H8762) immorality...
“And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love. And they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.” The relationship had developed i...
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
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:14 The empire of the BABYLONIANS followed that of the Assyrians (v. Ezekiel 23:12)....
(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...
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...
2 Samuel 13:15; Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:22; Ezekiel 23:28;...
Alienated — She grew weary of the Chaldeans....