Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 23:48
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all (t) women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
(t) Meaning, all other cities and countries.
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all (t) women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
(t) Meaning, all other cities and countries.
Verse Ezekiel 23:48. _THUS WILL I CAUSE LEWDNESS TO CEASE_] _Idolatry_; and from that time to the present day the Jews never relapsed into idolatry....
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...
_be taught_ TAKE WARNING (the form _nithpa_., cf. Deuteronomy 21:8)....
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...
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...
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. THUS WILL I CAUSE LEWDNESS TO CEASE OUT OF THE LAND - (). THAT ALL WOMEN MAY BE TA...
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...
TO CEASE. — By the removal of the sinners. “All women,” in accordance with the allegory, means _all nations._ The judgments upon Israel should be then, and for all time, a conspicuous monument of God’...
וְ הִשְׁבַּתִּ֥י זִמָּ֖ה מִן ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ וְ
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...
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...
THUS WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE LEWDNESS OUT OF THE LAND,.... There being no opportunity for it, nor any to commit it; what were not destroyed by famine, sword, and pestilence, during the siege, were carri...
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. Ver. 48. _Thus will I cause lewdness to cease._] Thus, if it may be done no otherwise....
_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...
Thus will I cause lewdness, every form of idolatry, TO CEASE OUT OF THE LAND, THAT ALL WOMEN, in this case all nations, MAY BE TAUGHT NOT TO DO AFTER YOUR LEWDNESS....
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
CAUSE LEWDNESS TO CEASE: see EZEKIEL 23:27. Hereafter in this land such-like abominations shall never be committed more, as indeed we do not read of any such after their return out of this captivity....
Ezekiel 23:48 lewdness H2154 cease H7673 (H8689) land H776 women H802 taught H3256 (H8739) practice H6213 ...
“Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.” This destruction will be a lesson to all women not to indulge in immoral practises. 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—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...
1 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Peter 2:6; Deuteronomy 13:11; Ezekiel 16:41;...
Lewdness — Idolatry. And indeed we do not read of any after their return out of this captivity....