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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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LABOUR. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Cause), App-6, for
the product of the labour....
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_deal … hatefully_ IN HATRED. "Labour" is wealth, the fruit of
labour. "Discovered" is exposed....
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D. The Punishment of Jerusalem 23:22-35
TRANSLATION
(22) Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold I am about
to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom your soul is
alienated, a...
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And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy
labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy
whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy who...
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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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וְ עָשׂ֨וּ אֹותָ֜ךְ בְּ שִׂנְאָ֗ה וְ
לָקְחוּ֙
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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 they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy
(k) labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of
thy harlotries (l) shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and...
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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 THEY SHALL DEAL WITH THEE HATEFULLY,.... The Chaldeans should hate
the Jews as much as before they loved them, when they came into the
bed of love to them, Ezekiel 23:17 and as much as the Jews ha...
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And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy
labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy
whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whor...
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_Behold, I will deliver thee_, &c. I will give thee up into the power
of the Chaldeans, whom thou wast formerly fond of, Ezekiel 23:22; but
since thou hast broken thy league and friendship with them,...
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The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
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and they shall deal with thee hatefully, with the hatred of those who
feel themselves spurned, AND SHALL TAKE AWAY ALL THY LABOR, all that
she had worked so hard to accumulate, AND SHALL LEAVE THEE NA...
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DEAL WITH THEE, use thee, and ever demean themselves toward thee,
HATEFULLY; in hatred; whatever drudgery hardship, base and vile
employment, their spite and hatred can invent, they shall cast on
thee...
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“The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery,
yes they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the
stranger wrongfully.”
The ‘worthy citizens' of the land had been no b...
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OHOLIBAH (JERUSALEM) WILL DRINK OF THE CUP OF SUFFERING AND
DESOLATION.
‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold I will deliver you into
the hands of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from w...
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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 23:22 As in ch. Ezekiel 16:1, the lovers
become the punishers. Twice here the phrase THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD
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(Ezekiel 23:22.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The transgression of Jerusalem is followed by her
punishment.
Ezekiel 23:23. “PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA.” “From the
circumstance that these names occur in immediate...
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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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2 Samuel 13:15; Deuteronomy 28:47; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 16:37;...
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Take away — Deprive thee of the comfortable use of all thy labour,
which they will exact of thee in captivity....