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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 23:21

“Thus you called to mind the lewdness of your youth, in the bruising of your teats by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.”

They are pictured as looking back with longing to when their breasts were admired and were heavily fondled. They want this to happen again. Their concentration is on the sensual rather than the spiritual.

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See also Ezekiel 23:21 in other biblical comments:

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BRUISING. Aram, and Syriac read "handling", as in Ezekiel 23:3....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _calledst to remembrance_ DIDST RECALL, i.e. renew, cf. Ezekiel 38:8. _for the paps_ By a slight change of reading (_k_for _n_), WHEN THY TEATS WERE BRUISED BY THEM OF EGYPT, WHEN THE BREASTS OF THY...

  • 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

    Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. THOU CALLEDST TO REMEMBRANCE - `thou didst repeat' (Maurer). IN BRU...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ תִּפְקְדִ֔י אֵ֖ת זִמַּ֣ת נְעוּרָ֑יִךְ בַּ...

  • 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...

  • 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

    THUS THOU CALLEDST TO REMEMBRANCE THE LEWDNESS OF THY YOUTH,.... By committing the same; the same idolatries their fathers committed in Egypt they now committed, being in alliance with the same people...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth._ Ver. 21. _Thus thou calledst to remembrance._] See Ezekiel 23:19 ....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising the teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth, literally, "on account of thy youthful breasts. " In the early history th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CALLEDST TO REMEMBRANCE: see EZEKIEL 23:19. THE LEWDNESS OF THY YOUTH: EZEKIEL 23:3. THE PAPS OF THY YOUTH; the beauty and loveliness of them, when God had formed them, allured the Egyptians: this may...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 23:21 remembrance H6485 (H8799) lewdness H2154 youth H5271 Egyptians H4714 pressed H6213 (H8800) bosom H1717

  • 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 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...

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