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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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MY MIND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6.
LIKE AS. according as....
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"Discovered" is uncovered, revealed....
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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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So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then
my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her
sister.
THEN MY MIND WAS ALIENATED FROM HER - literally, w...
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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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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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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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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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SO SHE DISCOVERED HER WHOREDOMS, AND DISCOVERED HER NAKEDNESS,.... The
Jews did not cease from their idolatries when they broke with the
Babylonians; but were rather more frequent and impudent in them...
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_So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then
my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her
sister._
Ver. 18. _Then my mind was alienated from her._] S...
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_And the Babylonians came to her_, &c. The metaphor of representing
idolatry by the inordinate lust of adultery is still carried on. _And
her mind was alienated from them_ She quickly grew weary of th...
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THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
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So she discovered her whoredoms, openly parading them before the whole
world, AND DISCOVERED HER NAKEDNESS, her most shameful condition. THEN
MY MIND WAS ALIENATED FROM HER, so that He turned from her...
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So, by this unsatiableness and change of lovers, SHE DISCOVERED HER
WHOREDOMS; made it appear to all, far and near, that she was a most
notorious and infamous strumpet. HER NAKEDNESS; her weakness, an...
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Ezekiel 23:18 revealed H1540 (H8762) harlotry H8457 uncovered H1540
(H8762) nakedness H6172 alienated H3363 (H8799
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“So she openly carried on her whoredoms and flaunted her nakedness.
Then my soul was alienated from her in the same way as my soul was
alienated from her sister.”
God was so disgusted at her behaviou...
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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 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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Amos 6:8; Deuteronomy 32:19; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 21:24; Hosea 2:2;...
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Discovered — Made it appear to all, far and near....