What does Ezekiel 23:47 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatchj them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire."
Verse Ezekiel 23:47. _SHALL STONE THEM WITH STONES_] As they did adulteresses under the law. See Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22, compared with John 8:3....
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...
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...
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. THE COMPANY SHALL STONE THEM...
23:47 them (h-11) Or 'hew them in pieces.' cf. 21.19, Note....
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...
WITH STONES... WITH SWORDS. — The figure and the reality are here designedly mixed. Stoning was the legal punishment of adultery, but the actual overthrow of Jerusalem was by the sword....
וְ רָגְמ֨וּ עֲלֵיהֶ֥ן אֶ֨בֶן֙ קָהָ֔ל וּ בָרֵ֥א אֹותְהֶ֖ן בְּ חַרְבֹותָ֑ם בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם וּ בְנֹֽותֵיהֶם֙ יַהֲרֹ֔גוּ
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...
_Stones, like adulteresses, chap. xvi. 38., and Leviticus xx. 10. (Haydock) --- Let the walls be demolished. (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 g...
AND THE COMPANY SHALL STONE THEM WITH STONES,.... Which was the punishment of adulterers and idolaters, Deuteronomy 13:10, this seems to refer to the Chaldean army casting out stones from their slings...
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Ver. 47. _And the company shall...
_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...
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
DISPATCH THEM: Or, single them out...
THE COMPANY, Heb. _congregation_, the Babylonian army. STONE THEM; the punishment of an adulteress; and this was in a manner done when the engines, which cast mighty stones into the besieged city, das...
Ezekiel 23:47 assembly H6951 stone H7275 (H8804) stones H68 execute H1254 (H8763) swords H2719 slay H2026 (H8799) sons H1121 daughters H1323 burn H8313 (H8799) houses H1004 fire H784 the company - Ez...
“And the gathering (of men) will stone them with stones, and despatch them with swords. They will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.” The gathering of men turn out 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. Ezekiel 23:4. _Samaria is Ahola...
_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 23:36) 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...
2 Chronicles 36:17; Deuteronomy 13:16; Ezekiel 16:41; Ezekiel 23:25; Ezekiel 23:29; Ezekiel 24:21; Ezekiel 24:6; Ezekiel 9:6; Jeremiah 33:4;...
The company — The Babylonian army....