Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 23:10
Famous - Or, “infamous among women;” literally as in the margin, i. e., a byword among women.
Famous - Or, “infamous among women;” literally as in the margin, i. e., a byword among women.
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...
FAMOUS. a name: i.e. infamous....
_famous among women_ lit. _a name to women_, i.e. a notorious example to women to take warning from, Ezekiel 23:48; Ezekiel 36:3; Ezekiel 16:41....
AND SHE BECAME FAMOUS, &C.— _And she became the common talk among the women, after judgment had been executed upon her._ As she had formerly been renowned among the heathen for her beauty; so she was...
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,...
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. SHE BECAME FAMOUS - l...
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...
SHE BECAME FAMOUS. — A better word would be _notorious._ The conquest of Samaria and the captivity of the northern tribes had now been accomplished more than 130 years, and had made them a byword amon...
הֵמָּה֮ גִּלּ֣וּ עֶרְוָתָהּ֒ בָּנֶ֤יהָ וּ בְנֹותֶ֨יהָ֙...
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...
These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for (f) they had executed judgment upon her. (f) Meaning the Ass...
_Disgrace: satisfying their passions, ver. 29. (Calmet) --- Women. Having once lost all sense of decorum, they became more abandoned. (Haydock)_...
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...
THESE DISCOVERED HER WICKEDNESS,.... That is, stripped them of all their substance: THEY TOOK HER SONS AND HER DAUGHTERS; and carried them captive: AND SLEW HER WITH THE SWORD; put an end to the kin...
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. Ver. 10. _These discover...
_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...
These, in making sport of her wantonness, DISCOVERED HER NAKEDNESS; THEY TOOK HER SONS AND HER DAUGHTERS, leading them into exile, AND SLEW HER WITH THE SWORD, destroying the kingdom of which Samaria...
THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
FAMOUS: _ Heb._ a name...
These used her as lewd women deserve, stripped her naked, and exposed her to shame, as EZEKIEL 23:26. God her Husband had clothed her, and covered her nakedness, but she lightly esteemed her God, dote...
Ezekiel 23:10 uncovered H1540 (H8765) nakedness H6172 away H3947 (H8804) sons H1121 daughters H1323 slew H2026 ...
“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...
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...
Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:29; Ezekiel 23:47; Ezekiel 23:48; Hosea
Discovered — Stript her naked, and exposed her to shame. Took her sons — Captives. Slew her — The kingdom of Israel, under Hoshea, was by Salmanesar utterly destroyed. They — The Assyrians, had execut...