Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 23:6
The army of the Assyrians is described. War-horses formed an important part in the armies of Assyria and Egypt; Israel was deficient in this respect Isaiah 36:8.
The army of the Assyrians is described. War-horses formed an important part in the armies of Assyria and Egypt; Israel was deficient in this respect Isaiah 36:8.
Verse Ezekiel 23:6. _CLOTHED WITH BLUE_] The _purple_ dye was highly valued among the ancients, and at first was only used by kings, at last it was used among the military, particularly by officers of...
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...
_captains and rulers_ Or, governors and satraps, cf. Nehemiah 4:14; Nehemiah 5:15....
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,...
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. WHICH WERE CLOTHED WITH BLUE ... ALL OF THEM DESIRABLE YOUNG MEN - rather, 'purple'...
23:6 rulers, (d-6) As Ezra 9:2 ; and so vers. 12,23....
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...
HORSEMEN. — The Assyrians, like the Egyptians, made large use of cavalry, as was necessary to a warlike nation; the multiplication of horses had on this account been forbidden to the Israelites (Deute...
לְבֻשֵׁ֤י תְכֵ֨לֶת֙ פַּחֹ֣ות וּ סְגָנִ֔ים בַּח֥וּרֵי...
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...
_Blue, or purple. This was reserved for the principal nobility._...
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...
WHICH WERE CLOTHED WITH BLUE,.... A colour the Assyrians were fond of, and clothed their soldiers in, and was taking to the eye; and is mentioned, because that men, finely clothed find beautifully arr...
Ezekiel 23:6 [Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. Ver. 6. _Which were clothed with blue._] With rich and gorgeous attire....
_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...
which were clothed with blue, the royal purple of ancient times, Israel being seduced by the splendor and pomp of Assyria, CAPTAINS AND RULERS, ALL OF THEM DESIRABLE YOUNG MEN, HORSEMEN RIDING UPON HO...
THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
CLOTHED WITH BLUE; richly apparelled, and, as the humour of that nation, in rich and beautiful blue, very magnificent to the eye. CAPTAINS; daring, valiant men, and fit for wars, who might defend the...
Ezekiel 23:6 clothed H3847 (H8803) purple H8504 Captains H6346 rulers H5461 desirable H2531 men H970 Horsemen H6571 r
“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...
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 23:12...
Horsemen — Skillful in riding, and well furnished with choice horses....