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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 23:16

“And as soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messages to them to Chaldea.”

This possibly has in mind the action of Hezekiah (Isaiah 39:1; 2 Kings 20:12), depicted in terms of a lovesick girl writing to someone whose photograph (depicted likeness) she has seen. But the idea is also more general. The flirtation was a continuous one.

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See also Ezekiel 23:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The sending of “messengers” refers to the act of Ahaz 2 Kings 16:7....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Read: AND SHE DOTED UPON THEM AFTER THE SIGHT OF HER EYES i.e. with delight and desire (Isaiah 11:3)....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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. ...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THEM INTO CHALDEA - (). It was she that solicited the Chaldeans, not...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SAW THEM WITH HER EYES. — This is to be taken in a sense wide enough to include knowledge obtained in any way, as well as by actual sight. The intercourse between Judæa and Babylon was so close that m...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _וַ_†_תַּעְגְּבָ֥ה_† עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם לְ מַרְאֵ֣ה עֵינֶ֑יהָ וַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Messengers. Achaz invited the Assyrians, and imitated their altars, &c., 4 Kings xvi. 2., &c. (Calmet) --- The Chaldeans afterwards possessed the country. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND AS SOON AS SHE SAW THEM WITH HER EYES, SHE DOTED UPON THEM,.... As lustful women, on the sight of the pictures of men, fall in love with them, and are mad after them; such a vehement desire after...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. Ver. 16. _And as soon as she saw them with her eyes._] Here began the mischief. _Ut vidi ut...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then_ When she neither took warning nor feared; _I saw that she was defiled_ That her heart was already set on her idols; _that they both_ Samaria and Jerusalem; _took one way_ That Judah fell into t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and as soon as she saw them with her eyes, probably when her merchants went to the East on business trips, or when Assyrian sculpture was brought to Jerusalem to adorn the palaces of the wealthy, SHE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AS SOON AS SHE SAW: _ Heb._ at the sight of her eyes...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SAW THEM; the portraits of them. SHE DOTED UPON THEM; like an unsatiable and most impudent adulteress, she fell into most inordinate affection for their persons on sight of their pictures. SENT MESSEN...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 23:16 eyes H5869 saw H4758 lusted H5689 (H8799) sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 Chaldea...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:14 The empire of the BABYLONIANS followed that of the Assyrians (v. Ezekiel 23:12)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 24:1; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Samuel 11:2; Ezekiel 16:17; Ezekiel 16

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