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Verse Ezekiel 23:14. _MEN POURTRAYED UPON THE WALL_] See on Ezekiel
8:10....
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After Israel’s captivity Judah intrigued first with Assyria, then
with Babylon, courting their monarchs, imitating their customs, and
learning their idolatries.
POURTRAYED UPON THE WALL - The monumen...
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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...
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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...
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MEN. Hebrew, plural _'enosh_. App-14....
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_and_that _she increased_ Rather: AND SHE ADDED TO HER WHOREDOMS, with
full stop at Ezekiel 23:13. It was certainly the custom in Babylonia
to draw figures of men and the like upon the walls; it is no...
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SAW MEN POURTRAYED UPON THE WALL, &C.— "Before she had seen the
Assyrians, upon the bare relation concerning them, or, upon the
painting only which was made of them, her passion was inflamed towards
t...
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C. Jerusalem's Prostitution 23:11-21
TRANSLATION
(11) And her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became corrupt in her
doting more than she, and in harlotries more than the harlotries of
her sister. ...
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And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed
upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
SHE SAW MEN POURTRAYED UPON THE WALL, THE IMAGES OF THE C...
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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...
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IMAGES OF THE CHALDEANS] Such pictures were common on the walls of
Babylonian palaces. Ezekiel imagines them as being seen in Jerusalem,
and as awakening the nation's desire for these unknown lovers....
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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...
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MEN PORTRAYED UPON THE WALL. — Such portraitures, with evidence that
they were once executed in brilliant colours, are characteristic both
of Egypt and Assyria, where stone for sculpture abounded. Fro...
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וַ תֹּ֖וסֶף אֶל ־תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ וַ
תֵּ֗רֶא אַ
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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...
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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...
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And [that] she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men (g)
portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with
vermilion,
(g) This declares that no words are able to sufficient...
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_Colours. She was enamoured at the account or picture of these people,
without ever having seen them._...
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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...
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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...
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AND THAT SHE INCREASED HER WHOREDOMS,.... Added to the number of her
idols, increased her idols, and even was guilty of more than her
sister:
FOR WHEN SHE SAW MEN PORTRAYED ON THE WALL; of the temple...
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And [that] she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men
pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with
vermilion,
Ver. 14. _For when she saw men portrayed upon the wall._]...
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_Then_ When she neither took warning nor feared; _I saw that she was
defiled_ That her heart was already set on her idols; _that they both_
Samaria and Jerusalem; _took one way_ That Judah fell into t...
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INCREASED HER WHOREDOMS; added to the number of her idolatries. WHEN
SHE SAW MEN PORTRAYED UPON THE WALL: wherever it was the Jews saw,
there it was they doted on their persons and habits: it is proba...
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Ezekiel 23:14 increased H3254 (H8686) harlotry H8457 looked H7200
(H8799) men H582 portrayed H2707 (H8794) wall...
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“And she increased her whoredoms, for she saw men portrayed on the
wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, belted
with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, al...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:14 The empire of the BABYLONIANS followed
that of the Assyrians (v. Ezekiel 23:12)....
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(Ezekiel 23:11.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The spiritual adultery of Judah with Assyria, in
which she surpasses Samaria in her iniquity.
Ezekiel 23:11. “SHE WAS MORE CORRUPT IN HER INORDINATE LOVE.”
“Judah w...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 8:10; Isaiah 46:1; Jeremiah 22:14; Jeremiah 50:2...