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Verse Ezekiel 23:20. _SHE DOTED UPON THEIR PARAMOURS_] פלגשיהם
_pillagsheyhem_, their _harlots_ or _concubines_. Anciently _harlot_
meant in our language either the _male_ or _female_ prostitute.
_W...
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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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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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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
SHE DOTED UPON THEIR PARAMOURS - i:e., her paramours among them (the
Egyptians...
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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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THEIR PARAMOURS. — The word is masculine, as indicating the
abominable sins copied by the Israelites from the heathen, and asses
and horses are introduced to show the intensity of lust. (Comp.
Jeremia...
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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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_Asses. He means the Egyptians, (chap. xvi. 26.) in whom the kings of
Juda trusted. (Calmet)_...
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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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FOR SHE DOTED UPON THEIR PARAMOURS,.... Or "concubines" z; the
neighbouring nations and allies of the Egyptians, whose friendship the
Jews courted, and whose idols they served: the Septuagint and Arab...
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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh [is as] the flesh of
asses, and whose issue [is like] the issue of horses.
Ver. 20. _Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses._] _Qui sunt bene
mentulati ...
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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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For she doted upon their paramours, upon her lovers, the eunichs,
princes, and courtiers who were instrumental in bringing about the
alliance, WHOSE FLESH, the member concerned, IS AS THE FLESH OF ASS...
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THE SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS...
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DOTED: see EZEKIEL 23:5. UPON THEIR PARAMOURS; Egyptians, and the
nations that were confederate with the Egyptians; looking on them as
able to defend by their power, enrich by their trade, and make
pr...
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Ezekiel 23:20 lusted H5689 (H8799) paramours H6370 flesh H1320 flesh
H1320 donkeys H2543 issue H2231 issue H2231
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“Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth
in which she had played the harlot in Egypt, and she doted on their
paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issu...
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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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Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:26; Ezekiel 17:15; Ezekiel 23:16; Jerem
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Paramours — The nations, that were confederate with the Egyptians....