Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezekiel 23:7
With all their idols. — The reality breaks through the figure, and leaves no doubt of the meaning of the allegory.
With all their idols. — The reality breaks through the figure, and leaves no doubt of the meaning of the allegory.
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 CHOSEN, &c.. the choice of Asshur's sons. So. verses: Ezekiel 23:9; Ezekiel 23:12....
_with all their idols_ The alliance with Assyria brought in Assyrian idolatry, cf. 2 Kings 23:11, where horses and chariots of the sun are mentioned, and also the altars on the roofs, where incense wa...
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,...
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. WITH ALL THEIR IDOLS SHE DE...
23:7 Asshur; (e-17) Assyria....
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...
וַ תִּתֵּ֤ן תַּזְנוּתֶ֨יהָ֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם מִבְחַ֥ר בְּנֵֽי...
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 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...
THUS SHE COMMITTED HER WHOREDOMS WITH THEM,.... Entered into alliance with them, and joined them in their idolatrous worship: WITH ALL THEM THAT WERE THE CHOSEN MEN OF ASSYRIA; before described by th...
_Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them [that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself._ Ver. 7. _Thus she committe...
_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...
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, bestowing her wantonness upon them, WITH ALL THEM THAT WERE THE CHOSEN MEN OF ASSYRIA AND WITH ALL ON WHOM SHE DOTED, with the same passion for spiritual ad...
THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
SHE COMMITTED HER WHOREDOMS WITH THEM: _ Heb._ bestowed her whoredoms upon them CHOSE MEN OF ASSYRIA: _ Heb._ the choice of the children of Asshur...
THUS, by the eye and familiar converse, she fell to idolatry. Committed her whoredoms: see EZEKIEL 23:3. WITH ALL THEM; she embraced the friendship and religion of all of them, and relied on the Assyr...
Ezekiel 23:7 committed H5414 (H8799) harlotry H8457 choice H4005 men H1121 Assyria H804 lusted H5689 (H8804) idols...
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 16:15; Ezekiel 20:7; Ezekiel 22:3; Ezekiel 22:4; Ezekiel 23:30
With all — Other nations, with whom she had commerce....