Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 23:29
Take away — Deprive thee of the comfortable use of all thy labour, which they will exact of thee in captivity.
Take away — Deprive thee of the comfortable use of all thy labour, which they will exact of thee in captivity.
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...
LABOUR. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Cause), App-6, for the product of the labour....
_deal … hatefully_ IN HATRED. "Labour" is wealth, the fruit of labour. "Discovered" is exposed....
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 they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy who...
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...
וְ עָשׂ֨וּ אֹותָ֜ךְ בְּ שִׂנְאָ֗ה וְ לָקְחוּ֙
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 they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy (k) labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy harlotries (l) shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness 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 THEY SHALL DEAL WITH THEE HATEFULLY,.... The Chaldeans should hate the Jews as much as before they loved them, when they came into the bed of love to them, Ezekiel 23:17 and as much as the Jews ha...
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whor...
_Behold, I will deliver thee_, &c. I will give thee up into the power of the Chaldeans, whom thou wast formerly fond of, Ezekiel 23:22; but since thou hast broken thy league and friendship with them,...
and they shall deal with thee hatefully, with the hatred of those who feel themselves spurned, AND SHALL TAKE AWAY ALL THY LABOR, all that she had worked so hard to accumulate, AND SHALL LEAVE THEE NA...
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
DEAL WITH THEE, use thee, and ever demean themselves toward thee, HATEFULLY; in hatred; whatever drudgery hardship, base and vile employment, their spite and hatred can invent, they shall cast on thee...
Ezekiel 23:29 deal H6213 (H8804) hatefully H8135 away H3947 (H8804) worked H3018 leave H5800 (H8804) naked...
“The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery, yes they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.” The ‘worthy citizens' of the land had been no b...
OHOLIBAH (JERUSALEM) WILL DRINK OF THE CUP OF SUFFERING AND DESOLATION. ‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from w...
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...
2 Samuel 13:15; Deuteronomy 28:47; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 16:37;...