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The idolatries of Manasseh’s reign exceeded all that had gone before
either in Israel or in Judah 2 Kings 21:1; 2 Chronicles 33:1....
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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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The infidelities of Judah with Assyria, Babylon and Egypt
11. On the greater excesses of Judah cf. Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:51;
Jeremiah 3:8;...
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AND WHEN HER SISTER— _And though,_ &c....
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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. ...
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And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in
her whoredoms.
WHEN HER SISTER AHOLIBAH SAW THIS. Judah, th...
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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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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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SHE WAS MORE CORRUPT. — Enough having been said of Aholah to form
the basis for a comparison, the prophet now turns to Aholibah. The
idolatries of Judah not only comparatively but actually exceeded th...
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וַ תֵּ֨רֶא֙ אֲחֹותָ֣הּ אָהֳלִיבָ֔ה וַ
תַּשְׁחֵ֥ת...
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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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_This; not chastisement, but dissolution._...
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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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AND WHEN HER SISTER AHOLIBAH SAW THIS,.... The two tribes of Judah and
Benjamin, when, they saw the idolatries the ten tribes fell into, and
the destruction which came upon them for the same; instead...
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_When her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt _ Jerusalem
was so far from taking warning by the judgments inflicted on Samaria,
that she advanced to greater degrees of idolatry. _She doted...
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And when her sister Aholibah saw this, having the evil example of
Samaria before her eyes always, SHE WAS MORE CORRUPT IN HER INORDINATE
LOVE THAN SHE, Judah going even beyond Samaria in the extent of...
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THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
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SHE WAS MORE CORRUPT IN HER INORDINATE LOVE THEN SHE:
_ Heb._ she corrupted her inordinate love more then etc.
MORE THEN HER SISTER IN HER WHOREDOMS:
_ Heb._ more then the whoredoms of her sister...
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AHOLIBAH; Judah, yet two tribes. SAW THIS; both the sins and
punishments of the kingdom of Israel, which should have been her
admonition. SHE WAS MORE CORRUPT, ran more violently into both
friendship,...
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Ezekiel 23:11 sister H269 Oholibah H172 saw H7200 (H8799) corrupt
H7843 (H8686) lust H5691 harlotry H8457 sisters...
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THE FALL OF OHOLIBAH, OF JERUSALEM.
“And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her
doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the
whoredoms of her sister.”
Jerusa...
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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—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:11 The notice that OHOLIBAH SAW THIS is
the only hint Ezekiel gives that she ought to have learned the lessons
of her older sister....
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(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...
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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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Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 23:4; Jeremiah 3:8; Jeremiah 3:8...