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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...
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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...
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Samaria intrigued with Assyria and Egypt alternately, or different
parties simultaneously. Hosea 7:11, "Ephraim is like a silly dove,
without understanding; they call unto Egypt, they go unto Assyria....
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B. Samaria's Prostitution 23:5-10
TRANSLATION
(5) And Oholah committed harlotry under Me, and she threw herself on
her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors, (6) clothed with blue.
governors and rulers,...
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Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth
they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and
poured their whoredom upon her.
NEITHER LEFT SHE HER WHORED...
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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...
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EGYPT] The northern kingdom wavered for a time between an Assyrian and
an Egyptian policy (Hosea 7:11). Its last king, Hoshea, revolted
against Assyria and allied himself with Egypt (2 Kings 17:4). Th...
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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...
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וְ אֶת ־תַּזְנוּתֶ֤יהָ מִ
מִּצְרַ֨יִם֙ לֹ֣א ע
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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...
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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...
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Neither left she her harlotries [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth
they (e) lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity,
and poured their immorality upon her.
(e) The Holy Spirit...
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_Egypt. They always retained an affection for those idols, the calf,
Adonis, &c._...
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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...
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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...
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NEITHER LEFT SHE HER IDOLS BROUGHT FROM EGYPT,.... Though the
Israelites took in the gods of the Assyrians into their worship, they
did not relinquish the golden calves set up at Dan and Bethel, in
im...
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Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth
they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and
poured their whoredom upon her.
Ver. 8. _Neither left she h...
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_Thus she committed whoredoms with them She defiled herself with
idols_, as the sense is more plainly expressed at the end of the
verse. _Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt_ She added
n...
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Neither, in addition to this new transgression, LEFT SHE HER WHOREDOMS
BROUGHT FROM EGYPT, since the calves set up by Jeroboam at Dan and
Bethel were copies of Egyptian idols, of the Apis statues; FOR...
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THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
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Ezekiel 23:8 up H5800 (H8804) harlotry H8457 Egypt H4714 youth H5271
lain H7901 (H8804) Pressed H6213 ...
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“Neither has she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt, for in
her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the teats of her
virginity, and they poured out their whoredoms on her. This is why I...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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
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(Ezekiel 23:5)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The spiritual adultery of Samaria with Assyria.
The instrument of her punishment is that very people which she had
made the object of her impure love.
Ezekiel 23:5. T...
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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...
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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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1 Kings 12:28; 2 Kings 10:29; 2 Kings 17:16; Exodus 32:4; Ezekiel 2