Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 23:45
Verse Ezekiel 23:45. And the righteous men] אנשים צדיקים anashim tsaddikim. The Chaldeans, thus called because they are appointed by God to execute judgment on these criminals.
Verse Ezekiel 23:45. And the righteous men] אנשים צדיקים anashim tsaddikim. The Chaldeans, thus called because they are appointed by God to execute judgment on these criminals.
The judgment to be executed by the hands of their allies. Ezekiel 23:45 THE RIGHTEOUS MEN - Or, righteous men. The allies are so called as the instruments of God’s righteous judgments. Ezekiel 23:4...
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 RIGHTEOUS... SHALL JUDGE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 20:10). App-92....
New exposure of the immoralities of Oholah and Oholibah (Ezekiel 23:36), and threat of their punishment (Ezekiel 23:45) The passage is not a continuation of Ezekiel 23:1, but an independent descripti...
Judgment on the adulterous women 45. the _righteous_ RIGHTEOUS men. The prophet carries on the figure of the punishment of adulteresses. They are judged by righteous men. He has not in his mind the n...
AND THE RIGHTEOUS MEN, &C.— The Chaldeans are called _righteous,_ because they came to inflict upon lewd women the punishments they had deserved; and not now to entice them to idolatry: _righteous,_ b...
E. Further Indictment of the Two Sisters 23:36-49 TRANSLATION (36) And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. (37) For they ha...
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. THE RIGHTEO...
THE RIGHTEOUS MEN] The allegory carries out the forms of justice observed in an Israelite city, but we need not look for a counterpart to the righteous men in the actual history....
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...
THE RIGHTEOUS MEN. — That is, men to whom the judgment of righteousness is committed....
וַ אֲנָשִׁ֣ים צַדִּיקִ֗ם הֵ֚מָּה יִשְׁפְּט֣וּ אֹֽותְהֶ֔ם...
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 the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of (s) adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands. (s) T...
_Just, compared with the Jews, whom they shall chastise. (Calmet)_...
We have here only a continuation of the same melancholy rehearsal of crimes, of one sister that had been charged also against the other. The subject is but one, though lengthened so many verses. I wil...
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 THE RIGHTEOUS MEN,.... Some understand this of the prophets, who were really righteous men; and foretold the righteous judgments of God that should come upon the idolatrous Jews, which was a judgi...
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands. Ver. 45....
_And the righteous men, they shall judge them_ All just judges, yea, all men that have any sense of common honesty, will condemn their conduct, and pronounce them deserving of the punishment of adulte...
And the righteous men, in this case the Chaldeans, as the executioners of God's sentence of judgment, THEY SHALL JUDGE THEM AFTER THE MANNER OF ADULTERESSES AND AFTER THE MANNER OF WOMEN THAT SHED BLO...
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
RIGHTEOUS MEN; men that kept the law of their God, for some such there were about Aholibah herself; or prophets, such as Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and some few more: or else the Babylonians, who in the pr...
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“And righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is in their hands.” God now appeals to...
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—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:36 Having reached a stopping point, the oracle restarts, once again naming OHOLAH AND OHOLIBAH (v. Ezekiel 23:36; see note on v....
(Ezekiel 23:36) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Judah and Samaria are considered as joined together in their sin and punishment. Ezekiel 23:37. “THEY HAVE COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND BLOOD IS IN THEIR HANDS.” “The act...
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...
Deuteronomy 22:21; Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 23:36; Ezekiel 23:37;...
Righteous men — Men that keep the law of their God....