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...
her _neighbours_ The order is: the Assyrians, governors and satraps, warriors clothed … See on Ezekiel 23:5. The intervention of Assyria in the affairs of Judah was caused by the appeal of Ahaz for he...
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. ...
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. CAPTAINS AND RULERS ... ALL OF THEM DESIRABL...
23:12 gorgeously, (f-15) Lit. 'perfectly.'...
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...
THE ASSYRIANS] The southern kingdom made alliance with Assyria in the days of Ahaz, who eagerly introduced foreign idolatries (2 Kings 16:7). Except in the reign of Hezekiah the Assyrian overlordship...
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...
HER NEIGHBOURS. — See Note on Ezekiel 23:5. In both places the warriors of Assyria are described in the most attractive way to carry out the figure; they are also spoken of as very powerful, to explai...
אֶל ־בְּנֵי֩ אַשּׁ֨וּר עָגָ֜בָה פַּחֹ֨ות וּ ס
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...
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...
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...
SHE DOTED UPON THE ASSYRIANS HER NEIGHBOURS,.... As in the times of Ahaz, who sent to Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, for help; and from whence he took the pattern of an altar, and had one built like...
She doted upon the Assyrians [her] neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. Ver. 12. _She doted._] _Amantes amentes._ Lov...
_When her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt _ Jerusalem was so far from taking warning by the judgments inflicted on Samaria, that she advanced to greater degrees of idolatry. _She doted...
She doted upon the Assyrians, her neighbors, having conceived a sinful affection for the heathenish neighbors and seeking an alliance with them, CAPTAINS AND RULERS CLOTHED MOST GORGEOUSLY, HORSEMEN R...
THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
This verse is the same with EZEKIEL 23:6, which see; only the clothing of blue there is here clothing of beauty; i.e. most beautiful....
Ezekiel 23:12 lusted H5689 (H8804) neighboring H7138 Assyrians H1121 H804 Captains H6346 rulers H5461 Clothed H3847
“She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbours, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. And I saw that she was defiled. They both took o...
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 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...
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 28:16; 2 Kings 16:7; Ezekiel 16:28; Ezekiel 23:23;...