Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 23:5
Played the harlot — United in idolatry, with the Assyrians. Mine — When under my government, and protection.
Played the harlot — United in idolatry, with the Assyrians. Mine — When under my government, and protection.
Verse Ezekiel 23:5. _AND AHOLAH PLAYED THE HARLOT_] Without entering into detail here, or following the _figures_, they both became idolatrous, and received the impure rites of the Egyptians, Assyrian...
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...
The intrigues of Samaria with Assyria 5. _when she was mine_ THOUGH MY WIFE, lit. under me. _Assyrians_her _neighbours_ In Ezekiel 16:26 the Egyptians are called Israel's "neighbours," but the Assyri...
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,...
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, AHOLAH PLAYED THE HARLOT WHEN SHE WAS MINE - literally, 'when she was under me,' - i:e...
23:5 mine; (c-9) Or 'instead of remaining with me.'...
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...
THE ASSYRIANS] In 2 Kings 15:17 we read that the northern kingdom became tributary to Assyria in the reign of Menahem. But the Assyrian monuments show that this subjection began as early as the reign...
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...
THE ASSYRIANS HER NEIGHBOURS. — Or, _the Assyrians drawing near._ They are described in Ezekiel 23:40 as those who “come from far.” The nearness here spoken of is to be understood not locally, but spi...
וַ תִּ֥זֶן אָהֳלָ֖ה תַּחְתָּ֑י וַ תַּעְגַּב֙...
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 Aholah played the harlot when (d) she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours, (d) When the Israelites were named the people of God, they became idolaters and for...
_Assyrians. That is, the idols of the Assyrians: for all that is said in this chapter of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is to be understood in a spiritual sense of their disloyalty to the Lord,...
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 AHOLAH PLAYED THE HARLOT WHEN SHE WAS MINE,.... His married wife, and so ought to have cleaved to him alone: or, under me o; under his cover, power, and protection, and therefore it was their inte...
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours, Ver. 5. _And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine._] _Fornicata est sub me,_ unde...
_And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine_ When she was under my government and protection. “After she had lived in covenant with me, and attended upon my service and worship all the time of the...
And Aholah played the harlot when she was Mine, forsaking the Lord in her idolatry; AND SHE DOTED ON HER LOVERS, inflamed with her evil passion, ON THE ASSYRIANS, HER NEIGHBORS, with whom the people o...
THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
AHOLAH, the kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes, PLAYED THE HARLOT; united in confederacy in civil concerns, and in idolatry as to religious concerns, with the Assyrians. WHEN SHE WAS MINE; when unde...
Ezekiel 23:5 Oholah H170 harlot H2181 (H8799) Mine H8478 lusted H5689 (H8799) lovers H157 (H8764) neighboring...
“And she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. And she bestowed her whored...
THE FALL OF OHOLAH (OF SAMARIA). “And Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine.” Here was the first downfall after the restoration. Oholah had proved false. She had been Yahweh's own, but she...
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 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...
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...
1 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 14:9; 1 Kings 15:26; 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kin