George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 23:22
About. The Philistines, Ammonites, &c., shall join the Chaldeans, (Haydock) and Egypt shall desert the Jews in their greatest need. (Calmet)
About. The Philistines, Ammonites, &c., shall join the Chaldeans, (Haydock) and Egypt shall desert the Jews in their greatest need. (Calmet)
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...
THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....
Chastisement of the adulteress 22. _thy lovers_ the nations once in alliance with her, Ezekiel 23:9; ch. Ezekiel 16:37; Jeremiah 30:14;...
I WILL RAISE UP THY LOVERS, &C.— "I will execute my judgments upon thee by those very Babylonians of whose alliance and idolatries thou hall been so fond. Thou hast since indeed broken the league whic...
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...
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; I WILL RAISE UP THY...
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...
I WILL BRING THEM AGAINST THEE. — Here, as everywhere, the fitness of the punishment to the sin, the correlation between them, is strongly brought out. Israel had chosen the idolatries of Egypt, Assyr...
לָכֵ֣ן אָהֳלִיבָ֗ה כֹּֽה ־אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִה֒...
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...
THEREFORE, O AHOLIBAH, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Or, ye two tribes of Benjamin and Judah, hear what the Lord says unto you: BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP THY LOVERS AGAINST THEE; the Chaldeans, whom the...
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; Ver. 22. _Therefore...
_I will raise up thy lovers against thee_, &c. I will execute my judgments upon thee, by those very Babylonians whose alliance and idolatries thou hast been so fond of, but since hast broken the leagu...
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God, the sovereign Ruler of the universe, BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP THY LOVERS AGAINST THEE, the very allies upon whose constancy Jerusalem thought she could d...
THY LOVERS; thy confederates. FROM WHOM THY MIND IS ALIENATED; whom thou hast first loathed and forsaken, and thereby enraged them against thee. BRING THEM AGAINST THEE; be not only an exciter to stir...
Ezekiel 23:22 Oholibah H172 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 up H5782 (H8688) lovers H157 ...
THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD ON OHOLIBAH (JERUSALEM) THROUGH HER LOVERS BECAUSE OF HER EVIL WAYS IN ORDER TO PURIFY HER. ‘Therefore, Oh Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh, “I will raise up your lovers agains...
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 23:22 As in ch. Ezekiel 16:1, the lovers become the punishers. Twice here the phrase THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD
(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...
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 16:37; Ezekiel 23:17; Ezekiel 23:28; Ezekiel 23:9; Habakk