Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 23:23
Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa - Possibly words expressive of rank, or names of small Chaldaean tribes, selected for their resemblance to expressive Hebrew words.
Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa - Possibly words expressive of rank, or names of small Chaldaean tribes, selected for their resemblance to expressive Hebrew words.
Verse Ezekiel 23:23. _PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA_] פקוד ושוע וקוע. These names have been thought to designate certain people bordering on the Chaldeans; but no geographer has ever been able to find them...
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...
PEKOD... SHEA... ROO. These Eastern peoples are all named in the inscriptions,...
On these peoples cf. Del. _Parad_., pp. 182, 236, 240. According to this writer the names appear in the inscriptions as Pukûdu, Sutu or Su and Kutu or Ku, and are names of peoples lying east of the Ti...
I WILL RAISE UP THY LOVERS, &C.— "I will execute my judgments upon thee by those very Babylonians of whose alliance and idolatries thou hall been so fond. Thou hast since indeed broken the league whic...
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...
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding u...
23:23 Babylon, (a-4) Or 'Babel.' Koa, (b-13) Or 'governors, and nobles, and princes.' and see Jeremiah 50:21 , Note b....
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...
PEKOD.. SHOA.. KOA] Eastern peoples tributary to Babylon. They are all mentioned in the inscriptions. THE ASSYRIANS] These now formed part of the Babylonian Empire....
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...
PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA. — These words were taken as proper names by our translators, and are still considered by some as indicating small Chaldæan tribes; but it is better, with the Vulg. and most m...
בְּנֵ֧י בָבֶ֣ל וְ כָל ־כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים פְּקֹ֤וד...
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...
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, (h) Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them rid...
Nobles. Protestants, "Pekod, and Shoah, and Roa:" (Haydock) which Junius takes to be the three great divisions of the empire. Others suppose they denote the dignities, though they occur not in Daniel....
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...
THE BABYLONIANS, AND ALL THE CHALDEANS,.... Both the inhabitants of the city of Babylon, called in the Hebrew text the children of Babylon, and all the inhabitants of the several parts of the country...
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding...
_I will raise up thy lovers against thee_, &c. I will execute my judgments upon thee, by those very Babylonians whose alliance and idolatries thou hast been so fond of, but since hast broken the leagu...
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, at that time representing the world empire, PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA, words signifying leadership or supremacy, and probably standing for the leaders of the thre...
OLBHeb; THE BABYLONIANS AND CHALDEANS; these are known. PEKOD, & c.: some reckon these the titles of some of the great commanders in this army, which come against Jerusalem, but they are names of dist...
Ezekiel 23:23 Babylonians H1121 H894 Chaldeans H3778 Pekod H6489 Shoa H7772 Koa H6970 Assyrians H1121 H804 desirabl
THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD ON OHOLIBAH (JERUSALEM) THROUGH HER LOVERS BECAUSE OF HER EVIL WAYS IN ORDER TO PURIFY HER. ‘Therefore, Oh Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh, “I will raise up your lovers agains...
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....
_Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup._ THE CUP OF WRATH I. the symbol suggested. 1. The “cup” is sometimes the emblem of joy and gladness (Psalms 23:5); but here of indignation and wrath, in allus...
_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 Kings 20:14; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Kings 25:1; Acts 7:4; Ezekiel 21:19;
Pekod — Pekod is the province between Tigris, and Lycus; in this was old Nineveh. Shoa — Either Sia in Armenia, or the Sohia, among which were the Adiabeni, and this contained the middle part of the k...