Eze 16, Eze 20, Eze 23 | TSK | STEP | Under the similitude of a wretched infant is shewn the natural state of Jerusalem. God's extraordinary love towards her. Her monstrous whoredom. Her grievous judgment. Her sin, equal to her mother, and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, calls for judgments. Mercy is promised her in the end.

because.Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.

and pouredst.

25,36,37

7:20; 2Ki 23:7; 2Ch 28:24; Ho 2:8

hast also.

7:19; 23:14-21; Ex 32:1-4; Ho 2:13; 10:1

men. Heb. a male. and didst.

Isa 44:19,20; 57:7,8; Jer 2:27,28; 3:9 This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.

meat.

13; De 32:14-17; Ho 2:8-13

a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.

Ge 8:21; *marg:

thy sons.

21; 23:4; Ge 17:7; Ex 13:2,12; De 29:11,12

and these.

20:26,31; 23:37,39; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ch 33:6; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 57:5

Jer 7:31; 32:35; Mic 6:7

be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.

8:17; Jer 2:34,35

my children.

Ps 106:37

to pass.

Le 18:21; 20:1-5; De 18:10; 2Ki 17:17; 21:6; 23:10

3-7,43,60-63; Jer 2:2; Ho 2:3; 11:1

woe.

2:10; 13:3,18; 24:6; Jer 13:27; Zep 3:1; Mt 11:21; 23:13-29; Re 8:13

Re 12:12

thou hast.

31,39; 20:28,29; 2Ki 21:3-7; 23:5-7,11,12; 2Ch 33:3-7

eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.

Le 26:30; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5,7; Jer 2:20; 3:2; 17:3

at every.

31; Ge 38:14,21; Pr 9:14,15; Isa 3:9; Jer 2:23,24; 3:2; 6:15

and hast made.

23:9,10,32; Re 17:1-5,12,13,16

with the.

8:10,14; 20:7,8; 23:3,8,19-21; Ex 32:4; De 29:16,17; Jos 24:14

Isa 30:21

I have.

14:9; Isa 5:25; 9:12,17

and have.

De 28:48-57; Isa 3:1; Ho 2:9-12

thine.{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.

delivered.The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.

37; 23:22,25,28,29,46,47; Ps 106:41; Jer 34:21; Re 17:16

daughters. or, cities.

2Ki 24:2; 2Ch 28:18,19; Isa 9:12

which.

47,57; 5:6,7

23:5-9,12-21; Jud 10:6; 2Ki 16:7,10-18; 21:11; 2Ch 28:23

Jer 2:18,36; Ho 10:6

in the land.

13:14-23; Jud 2:12-19; 2Ki 21:9

unto.

23:14-21

weak.

Pr 9:13; Isa 1:3; Jer 2:12,13; 4:22

the work.

Jud 16:15,16; Pr 7:11-13,21; Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3; Re 17:1-6

In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine,etc.

24,39

makest.

25; Ho 12:11

in that thou scornest.

33,34; Isa 52:3

8; 23:37,45; Jer 2:25,28; 3:1,8,9,20; Ho 2:2; 3:1; 2Co 11:2,3

give.

Ge 38:16-18; De 23:17,18; Ho 2:12; Joe 3:3; Mic 1:7; Lu 15:30

but thou.

Isa 30:3,6,7; 57:9; Ho 8:9,10

hirest. Heb. bribest.

O harlot.

Isa 1:21; 23:15,16; Jer 3:1,6-8; Ho 2:5; Na 3:4; Joh 4:10,18

Re 17:5

hear.

13:2; 20:47; 34:7; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14; Ho 4:1; Am 7:16

Because.

15-22; 22:15; 23:8; 24:13; 36:25; La 1:9; Zep 3:1

and thy.

23:10,18,29; Ge 3:7,10,11; Ps 139:11,12; Jer 13:22-26; Re 3:18

and by.

20,21; Jer 2:34

23:9,10,22-30; Jer 4:30; 13:22,26; 22:20; La 1:8,19; Ho 2:3,10

Ho 8:10; Na 3:5,6; Re 17:16

as women. Heb. with judgments of women, etc.

40; 23:45-47; Ge 38:11,24; Le 20:10; De 22:22-24; Mt 1:18,19

Joh 8:3-5

shed.

20,21,36; Ge 9:6; Ex 21:12; Nu 35:31; Ps 79:3-5; Jer 18:21

Zep 1:17; Na 1:2; Re 16:6

And I.For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people.

they shall throw.

24,25,31; 7:22-24; Isa 27:9

shall strip.

10-20; 23:26,29; Isa 3:16-24; Ho 2:3,9-13

thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.

shall also.

Hab 1:6-10; Joh 8:5-7

and thrust.

23:10,47; 24:21; Jer 25:9

burn.

De 13:16; 2Ki 25:9; Jer 39:8; 52:13; Mic 3:12

and execute.

5:8; 23:10,48; De 13:11; 22:21,24; Job 34:26

and I.

23:27; 37:23; Isa 1:25,26; 2:18; 27:9; Ho 2:6-17; Mic 5:10-14

Zec 13:2; 1Ti 5:20

will I.

5:13; 21:17; 2Sa 21:14; Isa 1:24; Zec 6:8

and will.

39:29; Isa 40:1,2; 54:9,10

thou hast.

22; Ps 78:42; 106:13; Jer 2:32

but hast.

6:9; De 32:21; Ps 78:40; 95:10; Isa 63:10; Am 2:13; Ac 7:51

Eph 4:30

I also.

7:3,4,8,9; 9:10; 11:21; 22:31; Ro 2:8,9

every.

18:2,3; 1Sa 24:13

As is.

3,45; 1Ki 21:16; 2Ki 17:11,15; 21:9; Ezr 9:1; Ps 106:35-38

that loatheth.

8,15,20,21; 23:37-39; De 5:9; 12:31; Isa 1:4; *marg:

Zec 11:8; Ro 1:30,31

your mother.

elder.

51; 23:4,11,31-33; Jer 3:8-11; Mic 1:5

thy younger sister. Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.

48,49,53-56,61; Ge 13:11-13; 18:20-33; 19:24,25; De 29:23; 32:32

Isa 1:9,10; Jer 23:14; La 4:6; *marg:

Lu 17:28-30; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7; Re 11:8

her daughters.

27; *marg:

26:6; Ge 14:8; 19:29; Ho 11:8

as if that were a very little thing. or, that was loathed asa small thing.

8:17; 1Ki 16:31

thou wast.

48,51; 5:6,7; 2Ki 21:9,16; Joh 15:21,22; 1Co 5:1

Mt 10:15; 11:24; Mr 6:11; Lu 10:12; Ac 7:52

pride.

28:2,9,17; 29:3; Ge 19:9; Ps 138:6; Pr 16:5,18; 18:12; 21:4; Isa 3:9

Isa 16:6; Da 4:30,37; 5:23; Ob 1:3; 1Pe 5:5

fulness.

Ge 13:10; 18:20; De 32:15; Isa 22:13,14; Am 6:3-6; Lu 12:16-20

Lu 16:19; 17:28; 21:34

neither.

18:12; Pr 21:13; Isa 3:14,15; Am 5:11,12; 8:4-6; Mic 3:2-4

Lu 16:20,21

and committed.

Ge 13:13; 18:20; 19:5; Le 18:22; De 23:17; 2Ki 23:7; Pr 16:18

Pr 18:12; Ro 1:26,27; Jude 1:7

therefore.

Ge 19:24; De 29:23; Job 18:15; Isa 13:19; Jer 20:16; 49:18; 50:40

La 4:6; Am 4:11; Zep 2:9; 2Pe 2:6; Re 18:9

Samaria.

Lu 12:47,48; Ro 3:9-20

justified.

Jer 3:8-11; Mt 12:41,42

which hast.

56; Mt 7:1-5; Lu 6:37; Ro 2:1,10,26,27

bear thine.

54,63; 36:6,7,15,31,32; 39:26; 44:13; Jer 23:40; 31:19; 51:51

Ho 10:6; Ro 1:32; 6:21

they are more.

Ge 38:26; 1Sa 24:17; 1Ki 2:32

bring.

60,61; 29:14; 39:25; Job 42:10; Ps 14:7; 85:1; 126:1; Isa 1:9

Jer 20:16; 31:23; 48:47; 49:6,39; Joe 3:1

in the midst.

Isa 19:24,25; Jer 12:16; Ro 11:23-31

thou mayest.

52,63; 36:31,32; Jer 2:26

in that.

14:22,23

then.

53; 36:11; Mal 3:4

was not.

Isa 65:5; Zep 3:11; Lu 15:28-30; 18:11

mentioned. Heb. for a report, or a hearing. pride. Heb.prides, or excellencies.

thy wickedness.

36,37; 21:24; 23:18,19; Ps 50:21; La 4:22; Ho 2:10; 7:1; 1Co 4:5

reproach.

2Ki 16:5-7; 2Ch 28:5,6,18-23; Isa 7:1; 14:28

Syria. Heb. Aram.

Ge 10:22,23; Nu 23:7

the daughters.

despise. or, spoil.

Jer 33:24

hast.

23:49; Ge 4:13; La 5:7

borne. Heb. borne them.

I will.

7:4,8,9; 14:4; Isa 3:11; Jer 2:19; Mt 7:1,2; Ro 2:8,9

which.

17:13-16; Ex 24:1-8; De 29:10-15,25; 2Ch 34:31,32; Isa 24:5

Jer 22:9; 31:32

I will remember.

8; Le 26:42,45; Ne 1:5-11; Ps 105:8; 106:45; Jer 2:2; 33:20-26

Ho 2:15; Lu 1:72

I will establish.

37:26,27; Isa 55:3; 2Sa 23:5; Jer 31:31-34; 32:38-41; 50:5

Ho 2:19,20; Heb 8:10; 12:24; 13:20

remember.

63; 20:43; 36:31,32; Job 42:5,6; Ps 119:59; Jer 31:18-20; 50:4,5

when.

53-55; So 8:8,9; Isa 2:2-5; 11:9,10; Ho 1:9-11; Ro 11:11

Ro 15:8,9,16; Ga 4:26,27; Eph 2:12-14; 3:6

I will.

Isa 49:18-23; 54:1,2; 60:4; 66:7-12; Ga 4:26-31

but not.

Jer 31:31-40; Joh 15:16; Heb 8:13

I will.

60; Da 9:27; Ho 2:18-23

and thou.

6:7; 39:22; Jer 24:7; Joe 3:17

remember.

61; 36:31,32; Ezr 9:6; Da 9:7,8

and never.

Job 40:4,5; Ps 39:9; La 3:39; Ro 2:1; 3:19,27; 9:19,20

when.

Ro 5:1,2; 1Co 4:7; Eph 2:3-5; Tit 3:3-7

‏ Ezekiel 20

1 God refuses to be consulted by the elders of Israel.

4 He shews the story of their rebellions in Egypt,

10 in the wilderness,

27 and in the land.

33 He promises to gather them by the Gospel.

45 Under the name of a forest he shews the destruction of Jerusalem.

A.M. 3411. B.C. 593. in the seventh.The seventh year of the captivity of Jeconiah, and according to Usher, Monday, Aug. 27, 3411.

1:2; 8:1; 24:1; 26:1; 29:1,17; 30:20; 31:1; 32:1; 40:1

that certain.

14:1-3; 33:30-33; 1Ki 14:2-6; 22:15-28; 2Ki 3:13; Isa 29:13; 58:2

Jer 37:17; Mt 22:16

and sat.

8:1; Lu 2:46; 8:35; 10:39; Ac 22:3

Are.

Isa 1:12; Mt 3:7; Lu 3:7

As I.

31; 14:3,4,7,8; 1Sa 28:6; Ps 50:15-21; Pr 15:8; 21:27; 28:9

Isa 1:15; Mic 3:7; Mt 15:8,9; Joh 4:24

judge them. or, plead for them.

14:14,20; 22:2; 23:36,45; Isa 5:3; Jer 7:16; 11:14; 14:11-14; 15:1

1Co 6:2

cause.

16:2,3; Mt 23:29-37; Lu 11:47-51; 13:33-35; Ac 7:51,52

In the.

Ex 6:6,7; 19:4-6; De 4:37; 7:6; 14:2; Ps 33:12; Isa 41:8,9; 43:10

Isa 44:1,2; Jer 33:24; Mr 13:20

lifted up mine hand. or, sware. (and so ver. 6, etc.Ex 6:8, 9.)

15,23; 47:14; Ge 14:22; De 32:40; Re 10:5

and made.

35:11; Ex 3:8; 4:31; De 4:34; 11:2-7; Ps 103:7

I am.

Ex 3:6,16; 20:2,3

lifted.

5,15,23,42

to bring.

Ge 15:13,14; Ex 3:8,17; 14:1-15:27

into.

De 8:7-9; 11:11,12; 32:8

flowing.

Ex 13:5; 33:3; Le 20:24; Nu 13:27; 14:8; De 6:3; 11:9; 26:9,15; 27:3

De 31:20; 32:13,14; Jos 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:22

which is.

15; Ps 48:2; Da 8:9; 11:16,41; Zec 7:14

Cast.

8; 18:6,15,31; Isa 2:20,21; 31:7

the abominations.

6:9; 14:6; 2Ch 15:8

defile.

23:3,8; Le 17:7; 18:3; De 29:16-18; Jos 24:14

I am.

19; Ex 16:12; Le 11:44; 20:7

they rebelled.

De 9:7; Ne 9:26; Isa 63:10

they did.

7; Ex 32:4-6

then I.

13,21; 5:13; 7:8

I wrought.

14,22; 36:21,22; 39:7; Ex 32:12; Nu 14:13-25; De 9:28; 32:26,27

Jos 7:9; 1Sa 12:22

in whose.

Jos 2:10; 9:9,10; 1Sa 4:8

Ex 13:17,18; 14:17-22; 15:22; 20:2

I gave.

De 4:8; Ne 9:13,14; Ps 147:19,20; Ro 3:2

shewed them. Heb. made them to know. which.

13,21; Le 18:5; De 20:15,16; Lu 10:28; Ro 10:5; Ga 3:12

I gave.

Ge 2:3; Ex 16:29; 20:8-11; 35:2; Le 23:3,24,32,39; 25:4; De 5:12-15

Ne 9:14; Mr 2:27,28; Col 2:16

to be.

20; Ex 31:13-17

I am.

37:28; Ex 19:5,6; Le 20:8; 21:8,15,23; Joh 17:17-19; 1Th 5:23

Jude 1:1

rebelled.

8; Ex 16:28; 32:8; Nu 14:22; De 9:12-24; 31:27; 1Sa 8:8

Ne 9:16-18; Ps 78:40,41; 95:8-11; 106:13-33; Isa 63:10

and they.

16,24; Le 26:15,43; 2Sa 12:9; Pr 1:25; 13:13; Am 2:4; 1Th 4:8

Heb 10:28,29

which.

and my.

21; Ex 16:27,28; Nu 15:31-36; Isa 56:6

I said.

8,21; Ex 32:10; Nu 14:11,12,29; 16:20,21,45; 26:25; De 9:8

Ps 106:23

9,22; 36:22,23; Eph 1:6,12

I lifted.

23; Nu 14:23-30; 26:64,65; De 1:34,35; Ps 95:11; 106:26; Heb 3:11

Heb 3:18; 4:3

flowing.

they.

13,14

for their.They still had a hankering after the idolatries they had learned in Egypt, to which they added new idols, which they had seen in countries through which they had travelled, as those of the Midianites, Amorites, etc.

8; 14:3,4; 23:8; Ex 32:1-8; Nu 15:39; 25:2; Am 5:25,26; Ac 7:39-43

mine.

8:18; 9:10; 1Sa 24:10; Ne 9:19; Ps 78:37,38

neither.

7:2; 11:13; Jer 4:27; 5:18; Na 1:8,9

I said.

Nu 14:32,33; 32:13-15; De 4:3-6; Ps 78:6-8

the statutes.

Zec 1:2-4; Lu 11:47,48; Ac 7:51; 1Pe 1:18

defile.

7; Jer 2:7; 3:9

the Lord.

Ex 20:2,3; De 5:6,7; 7:4-6; Ps 81:9,10; Jer 3:22,23

walk.

11:20; 36:27; 37:24; De 4:1; 5:1,32,33; 6:1-8:20; 10:1-12:32

Ne 9:13,14; Ps 19:7-11; 105:45; Tit 2:11-14

12; 44:24; Ex 20:11; 31:13-17; Ne 13:15-22; Isa 58:13

Jer 17:22,24,27

the children.

Nu 21:5; 25:1-8; De 9:23,24; 31:27; Ps 106:29-33; Ac 13:18

if a man.

11,13

I would.

8,13; 21:31; 2Ch 34:21,25; Re 16:1

accomplish.

7:8; 13:15; La 4:11; Da 11:36

I withdrew.

17; Job 13:21; Ps 78:38; La 2:8

wrought.

9,14,22; Ps 25:11; 79:9,10; 115:1; Isa 48:9-11; Jer 14:7,21

Da 9:17,19

lifted.

15; De 32:40; Re 10:5,6

that I.The predictions of the dispersion of Israel, delivered by Moses just before his death, are evidently here referred to: they received a partial accomplishment at the Babylonian captivity, but are more exactly fulfilling at this day.

Le 26:33; De 28:64-68; 32:26,27; Ps 106:27; Jer 15:4

they had.

13,16

their eyes.

6:9; 18:6,12,15; De 4:19; Job 31:26,27; Am 2:4

I gave.The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies. In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

26,39; 14:9-11; De 4:27,28; 28:36; Ps 81:12; Isa 66:4; Ro 1:21-28

2Th 2:9-11

polluted.

31; Isa 63:17; Ro 11:7-10

in that.

16:20,21; Le 18:21; 2Ki 17:17; 21:6; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Jer 32:35

all that.

Ex 13:12; Lu 2:23

to the end.

6:7

speak.

2:7; 3:4,11,27

Yet.

Ro 2:24; Re 13:5

committed. Heb. trespassed.

when I.

Jos 23:3,4,14; Ne 9:22-26; Ps 78:55-58

the which.

6,15; Ge 15:18-21; 26:3,4; Ps 105:8-11

they saw.

6:13; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5-7; Jer 2:7; 3:6

their sweet.

16:19

I said, etc. or, I told them what the high place was, or,Bamah. And the.

16:24,25,31

Are ye.

Nu 32:14; Jud 2:19; Jer 7:26; 9:14; 16:12; Mt 23:32; Ac 7:51

ye offer.

26; De 18:10-12; Ps 106:37-39; Jer 7:31; 19:5

and shall.

3; 14:3,4; 1Sa 28:5,6; 2Ki 3:13,14; Job 27:8,10; Ps 66:18

Pr 1:27,28; 28:9; Isa 1:15; Jer 14:12; Zec 7:13; Mt 25:11,12

Jas 4:1-3

that which.

11:5; 38:10; Ps 139:2; Pr 19:21; La 3:37

We will.

1Sa 8:5; Jer 44:17,29; Ro 12:2

to serve.

De 4:28; 28:36,64; 29:17; Isa 37:19; Da 5:4; Re 9:20

surely.

8:18; Jer 21:5; 42:18; 44:6; La 2:4; Da 9:11,12

38; 34:16; Isa 27:9-13; Am 9:9,10

I will.

36; 19:13; 38:8; Ho 2:14; Mic 4:10; 7:13-15; Re 12:14

and there.

17:20; 38:22; Jer 2:9,35; 25:31; Ho 4:1; Mic 6:1,2

13,21; Ex 32:7-35; Nu 11:1-35; 14:1-45; 16:1-50; 25:1-18

Ps 106:15-48; 1Co 10:5-10

pass.

34:17; Le 27:32; Jer 33:13; Mt 25:32,33

I will.

16:59,60; Le 26:25; Ps 89:30-32; Am 3:2

the bond. or, a delivering.

I will purge.

11:21; 34:17,20-22; Nu 14:28-30; Am 9:9,10; Zec 13:8,9; Mal 3:3

Mal 4:1-3; Mt 3:9,10,12; 25:32,33; Ro 9:27-29

they shall.

13:9; Nu 14:30; Ps 95:11; Jer 44:14; 1Co 10:5; Heb 4:6; Jude 1:5

and ye.

6:7; 15:7; 23:49; Ps 9:16

Go ye.

25,26; Jud 10:14; 2Ki 3:13; Ps 81:12; Ho 4:17; Am 4:4,5

Ro 1:24-28; 2Th 2:11

but.

23:37-39; Pr 21:27; Isa 1:13-15; 66:3; Jer 7:9-11; Zep 1:4,5

Mt 6:24; Re 3:15,16

in mine.These predictions received a partial accomplishment by the restoration of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity; but they seem chiefly to relate to the establishment of the Christian church, and more especially to the future conversion of the Jews, and their restoration to their own land.

17:23; Ps 2:6; 68:15,16; Isa 2:2,3; 66:20; Jer 31:12; Joe 3:17,18

Ob 1:16; Mic 4:1,2; Heb 12:20-22; Re 21:10

there shall.

37:22-28; Isa 56:7; 60:7; 66:23; Zec 8:20-23; Mal 1:11; 3:4; Re 12:1

Heb 13:15; 1Pe 2:5

first-fruits. or, chief.

with your.

28; 6:13; Ge 8:21; Le 1:9,13,17; Eph 5:2; Php 4:18

sweet savour. Heb. savour of rest. I bring.

11:17; 34:19; 36:24; 37:25; 38:8; Isa 11:11-16; 27:12,13; Jer 23:3

Jer 30:3,18; 32:37; Am 9:14; Ob 1:17-21; Mic 7:12-16

and I will.

28:22,25; 38:23; 39:27-29; Le 10:3; Isa 5:16; Lu 2:14; 1Pe 3:15

ye shall.

38,44; 24:24; 26:13; 36:23; 38:23; Jer 24:7; 31:34; Joh 17:3

1Jo 5:20

when I.

11:17-20; 34:13; 36:24; 37:21,25

for the which.

shall ye.

6:9; Le 26:39-41; Ne 1:8-10; Ho 5:15

and ye shall.

16:61-63; 36:31; Job 42:6; Jer 31:18; Zec 12:10-14; Lu 18:13

2Co 7:11

And ye shall.

38; 24:24

when I.

9,14,22; 36:21,22; Ps 79:9; 115:1; Eph 1:6; 1Ti 1:16

Moreover.This is the beginning of another prophecy, and properly belongs to the following chapter.

set.

4:7; 6:2

toward.Towards Judea, which lay south of Mesopotamia, where the prophet now dwelt.

and drop.

21:2; De 32:2; Job 29:22; Am 7:16; Mic 2:6; *marg:

the forest.The city of Jerusalem, as full of inhabitants as the forest is of trees.

Jer 13:19; 22:7; Zec 11:1,2

I will kindle.I will send war; and it shall destroy all ranks and characters of the people.

15:6,7; 19:14; 22:20,21; De 32:22; Isa 9:18,19; 30:33; Jer 21:14

green.

17:24; Lu 23:31

the flaming.

Isa 66:24; Mr 9:43-49

from the south.

21:3,4; Isa 24:1-6

De 29:24-28; 2Ch 7:20-22; Isa 26:11; Jer 40:2,3; La 2:16,17

Doth.Is it not his usual custom to deal in enigmas? His figures are not to be understood; we should not trouble ourselves with them. God therefore commands the prophet to declare, in the next chapter, the same things in the plainest terms, so that they should not complain of his parables.

Mt 13:13,14; Joh 16:25; Ac 17:18

‏ Ezekiel 23

1 The whoredoms of Aholah and Aholibah.

23 Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers.

36 The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both;

45 and shews their judgments.

two.

16:44,46; Jer 3:7-10

in Egypt.

20:8; Le 17:7; De 29:16; Jos 24:14

in their.

8,19,21; 16:22; Ho 2:15

the names.The kingdom of Israel, of which Samaria was the capital, containing ten tribes, and occupying a larger extent of country than that of Judah, is therefore called "her elder sister;" and Aholah, the name given to her, implies that the whole religious establishment in Israel was a human invention, a temple and service of their own, and not of God's appointment. Aholibah, the name given to Judah, implies that the worship established there was from God, and that His temple was truly at Jerusalem.

the elder.

16:40; 1Ki 12:20

they were.

16:8,20; Ex 19:5,6; Ps 45:11-16; Jer 2:2,3; Ro 7:4

Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle.

1Ki 12:26-33; Joh 4:22

Aholibah. that is, My tabernacle in her.

1Ki 8:29; Ps 76:2; 132:13,14

Aholah.The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria.

1Ki 14:9,16; 15:26,30; 16:31,32; 21:26; 2Ki 17:7-18

doted.

7,9,12,16,20; 16:37; Jer 50:38

on the.

16:28; 2Ki 15:19; 16:7; 17:3; Ho 5:13; 8:9,10; 10:6; 12:1

all of.

12-15

committed her whoredoms with them. Heb. bestowed herwhoredoms upon them.

16:15

the chosen men of Assyria. Heb. the choice of the childrenof Asshur.

Ge 10:22

with all their.

30; 20:7; 22:3,4; Ps 106:39; Ho 5:3; 6:10

whoredoms.

3,19,21; Ex 32:4; 1Ki 12:28; 2Ki 10:29; 17:16

2Ki 15:29; 17:3-6,23; 18:9-12; 1Ch 5:26; Ho 11:5; Re 17:12,13,16

discovered.

29; 16:37-41; Ho 2:3,10

they took.

famous. Heb. a name.

48; Jer 22:8,9

her sister.

4; Jer 3:8

was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she. Heb. shecorrupted her inordinate love more than she. her sister in her whoredoms. Heb. the whoredoms of her sister.

16:47-51; Jer 3:8-11

upon.

5; 16:28; 2Ki 16:7-15; 2Ch 28:16-23

captains.

6,23

that they.

31; 2Ki 17:18,19; Ho 12:1,2

pourtrayed.

8:10; Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2

vermilion.

Jer 22:14

with girdles.

1Sa 18:4; Isa 22:21

all of.

Jud 8:18; 2Sa 14:25

look to.That is, "princes in appearance;" which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.

as soon as she saw them with her eyes. Heb. at the sight ofher eyes.

16:29; Ge 3:6; 6:2; 39:7; 2Sa 11:2; 2Ki 24:1; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37

Pr 6:25; 23:33; Mt 5:28

and sent.

40,41; 16:17,29; 2Pe 2:14

Babylonians. Heb. children of Babel.

Ge 10:10; 11:9

and her.

22,28; 16:37; 2Sa 13:15

alienated. Heb. loosed, or disjointed.

discovered.

16:36; 21:24; Isa 3:9; Jer 8:12; Ho 7:1

then.

De 32:19; Ps 78:59; 106:40; Jer 6:8; 12:8; 15:1; La 2:7; Ho 2:2

Am 6:8; Zec 11:8

multiplied.

14; 16:25,29,51; Am 4:4

in calling.

3,8,21; 16:22; 20:7

16:20,26

17:15; Jer 5:8

I will raise.

9,28; 16:37; Isa 10:5,6; 39:3,4; Hab 1:6-10; Re 17:16

from.

and I.

Jer 6:22,23; 12:9-12

Babylonians.

21:19-27; 2Ki 20:14-17; 25:1-3

the Chaldeans.

2Ki 24:2; Job 1:17; Isa 23:13; Ac 7:4

Pekod.

Jer 50:21

the Assyrians.

Ge 2:14; 25:18; Ezr 6:22

desirable.

6,12

with chariots.

26:10; Jer 47:3; Na 2:3,4; 3:2,3

I will set.

45; 16:38; 21:23; 2Sa 24:14; Jer 39:5,6

I will set.

5:13; 8:1-18; 16:38-42; Ex 34:14; De 29:20; 32:21,22; Pr 6:34

So 8:6; Zep 1:18

they shall take away.This refers to the severe vengeance which enraged husbands took on their faithless wives: and implies that God would employ the Chaldeans to destroy the princes and priests of Judah, for violating their covenants and treaties. Such punishments were anciently common; and such is the present practice in one of the South Sea Islands.

they shall take thy.

47; Ho 2:4,5

thy residue.

15:6,7; 20:47,48; 22:18-22; Re 18:8

strip.

29; 16:16,37,39; Jer 13:22; Ho 2:3,9,10; Re 17:16; 18:14-17

fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thy decking.

Isa 3:17-24; 1Pe 3:3,4

will I.

16:41; 22:15; Isa 27:9; Mic 5:10-14; Zec 13:2

and thy.

3,19

so that.These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it. This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment. For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of 2,414 years.

whom thou.

17,22; 16:37; Jer 21:7-10; 24:8; 34:20

deal.

25,26,45-47; 16:39; De 28:47-51; 2Sa 13:15

the nakedness.

18; 16:36,37

thou hast.

12-21; 6:9; Ps 106:35-38; Jer 2:18-20; 16:11,12; 22:8,9

because thou art.

7,17

walked.

13; 16:47-51; Jer 3:8-11

her.

2Ki 21:13; Jer 7:14,15; Da 9:12

drink.

Ps 60:3; Isa 51:17; Jer 25:15-28; 48:26; Mt 20:22,23; Re 16:19

Re 18:6

thou shalt be.

22:4,5; 25:6; 26:2; 35:15; 36:3; De 28:37; 1Ki 9:7; Ps 79:3

Jer 25:9; La 2:15,16; Mic 7:8

filled.

Jer 25:27; Hab 2:16

with the cup of astonishment.

Isa 51:17,22

drink.

Ps 75:8; Isa 51:17

and pluck.

3,8; Re 18:7

Because.

22:12; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:32; 3:21; 13:25; 23:27; 32:33; Ho 8:14; 13:6

Ro 1:28

and cast.

1Ki 14:9; Ne 9:26

therefore.

45-49; 7:4; 44:10; Le 24:15; Nu 14:34; 18:22

wilt.

20:4; 22:2; Jer 1:10; 1Co 6:2,3

judge. or, plead for.

Jer 11:14; 14:11

Aholah.

declare.

16:2; Isa 58:1; Ho 2:2; Mic 3:8-11; Mt 23:13-35; Lu 11:39-52

Ac 7:51-53

they have.

5; 16:32; Ho 1:2; 3:1

and blood.

39,45; 16:36,38; 22:2-4; 24:6-9; 2Ki 24:4; Ps 106:37,38

Isa 1:15; Jer 7:6,9; Ho 4:2; Mic 3:10; Lu 13:34

have also.

4; 16:20,21,36,45; 20:26,31; Le 18:21; 20:2-5; De 12:31

2Ki 17:17; 21:6; Jer 7:31; 32:35

they have.

7:20; 8:5-16; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:11,12

and have.

20:13,24; 22:8; Ne 13:17,18; Jer 17:27

they came.

Isa 3:9; Jer 7:8-11; 11:15; Mic 3:11; Joh 18:28

thus.

38; 44:7; 2Ki 21:4; 2Ch 33:4-7; Jer 23:11

ye have.

13; Isa 57:9

to come. Heb. coming.

2Ki 20:13-15

thou didst.

Ru 3:3; Es 2:12

paintedst.{Kachalt aineych,} rendered by the LXX. [estibizou tous ophthalmous sou;] "thou didst paint thine eyes with stibium," and Vulgate {circumlinisti stibio oculos tuos,} "thou didst paint round thine eyes with stibium," or lead ore; whence it is called in Arabic {kochl,} and in Syriac {kecholo,} and {koochlo.}

2Ki 9:30; Jer 4:30

and deckedst.

16:13-16; Pr 7:10; Isa 3:18-23

stately. Heb. honourable.

Es 1:6; Pr 7:16,17; Isa 57:7; Am 2:8; 6:4

a table.

44:16; Isa 65:11; Mal 1:7

whereupon.

16:18,19; Pr 7:17; Jer 44:17; Ho 2:8,9

a voice.This seems to be an account of an idolatrous festival, perhaps that of Bacchus; in which a riotous and drunken multitude assembled, adorned with bracelets and chaplets, accompanied with music, songs, and dances.

Ex 32:6,18,19; Ho 13:6; Am 6:1-6

common sort. Heb. multitude of men. were brought.

Job 1:15; Joe 3:8

Sabeans. or, drunkards. bracelets.

16:11,12; Re 12:3

old.

Ezr 9:7; Ps 106:6; Jer 13:23; Da 9:16

whoredoms with her. Heb. her whoredoms.

so went.

3,9-13

the righteous.The Chaldeans, so called, because appointed by God to execute his judgment on these criminals.

36; Jer 5:14; Ho 6:5; Zec 1:6; Joh 8:3-7