Jealousy, the most violent of passions. (Calmet) --- So the Chaldeans are styled, as Assur is the rod, Isaias x. 5. (Worthington) --- Ears, the punishment of adulteresses: both king and priests suffer. (St. Jerome) --- Thus the captives were probably treated. (Calmet) See Seneca, Ira. iii. 20. --- Fire, by Ismahel, chap. xix. 14.
Verse Ezekiel 23:25. _SHALL TAKE AWAY THY NOSE_] A punishment frequent among the Persians and Chaldeans, as ancient authors tell. Adulteries were punished in this way; and to this _Martial_ refers: -...
TAKE AWAY THY NOSE AND THINE EARS - Alluding to the barbarous custom of mutilating prisoners in the east Daniel 2:5. An Egyptian law prescribed this punishment for an adulteress. FIRE - A mode of capi...
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...
"Jealousy" differs little from fury, ch. Ezekiel 16:38. _take away thy nose_ Reference is either to the ancient practice (as in Egypt) of mutilating the adulteress, or to the habit of disfiguring the...
I WILL SET MY JEALOUSY AGAINST THEE— "They shall punish thee with that fury with which a man in the rage of jealousy shall treat a wife who has been unfaithful to him. The mutilations mentioned in thi...
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...
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and t...
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...
TAKE AWAY THY NOSE AND THINE EARS. — The barbarous custom of mutilating prisoners prevailed in the East from the earliest times; it is here mentioned with especial reference to the destruction of the...
וְ נָתַתִּ֨י קִנְאָתִ֜י בָּ֗ךְ וְ עָשׂ֤וּ אֹו
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...
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy (i) nose and thy ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and...
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 I WILL SET MY JEALOUSY AGAINST THEE, AND THEY SHALL DEAL FURIOUSLY WITH THEE,.... As a jealous husband, enraged against his adulterous wife, falls upon her in his fury, and uses her with great sev...
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and th...
_I will set my jealousy against thee_, &c. I will be against thee, as a jealous man is against his wife; _and they shall deal furiously_ And they, as the executioners of my wrath, shall act toward the...
And I will set My jealousy against thee, which in this case took on the nature of a zeal for destruction, AND THEY SHALL DEAL FURIOUSLY WITH THEE, with unbridled wrath; THEY SHALL TAKE AWAY THY NOSE A...
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
I WILL SET MY JEALOUSY AGAINST THEE; as a jealous provoked husband, I will be as much against thee as they are, their fury shall avenge my quarrel. THEY SHALL DEAL FURIOUSLY WITH THEE; their dispositi...
Ezekiel 23:25 set H5414 (H8804) jealousy H7068 deal H6213 (H8804) furiously H2534 remove H5493 (H8686) nose...
“And I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears, and your residue will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and yo...
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...
Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:21; Deuteronomy 32:22; Exodus 34:14;...
I will set my jealousy — As a jealous provoked husband, I will be as much against thee as they are. Thy residue — Either the people, who hid themselves in vaults and cellars, or what the Chaldeans can...