Ezekiel 23:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. TWO WOMEN. Two sisters, representing respectively Samaria and Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOREDOMS. idolatries. EGYPT. Compare Ezekiel 20:7; Ezekiel 20:8. pressed. handled, as in verses: Ezekiel 23:8; Ezekiel 23:21. BRUISED. squeezed (in natural use).... [ Continue Reading ]
AHOLAH. Hebrew. _'ahalah =_ [She has] her own tent. So named probably because Israel set up her own worship as distinct from Jehovah's. ELDER. Refers not to age, but to extent. AHOLIBAH. Hebrew. _'ahalibah =_ My tent [is] in her.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHOSEN, &c.. the choice of Asshur's sons. So. verses: Ezekiel 23:9; Ezekiel 23:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMOUS. a name: i.e. infamous.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural _'enosh_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIND. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-18,... [ Continue Reading ]
MY MIND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. LIKE AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLING TO REMEMBRANCE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Cause), App-6, for the desiring of her former idolatries. HARLOT. Put for idolatress. IN. Some codices read "from", as in Ezekiel 23:8 and Ezekiel 23:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRUISING. Aram, and Syriac read "handling", as in Ezekiel 23:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEKOD... SHEA... ROO. These Eastern peoples are all named in the inscriptions,... [ Continue Reading ]
WAGONS. chariots. AN ASSEMBLY. a gathered host. PEOPLE. peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
LABOUR. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Cause), App-6, for the product of the labour.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEATHEN. nations, IDOLS. manufactured gods.... [ Continue Reading ]
CUP. Compare Isaiah 51:17; Revelation 14:9; Revelation 14:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
BREAK: or, gnaw, lest. drop should be lost. PLUCK OFF. tear out: i.e. destroy the occasions of their idolatry. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEWDNESS... WHOREDOMS. Put here by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Cause), App-8, for the punishment due to the idolatry.... [ Continue Reading ]
ADULTERY. Put (like whoredom) for all idolatry, as being unfaithfulness to Jehovah. See note on Ezekiel 16:15. CAUSED. set apart. TO PASS, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2), THEM. "Them" is masculine, and refers to the idols, in the first clause; and so, many codices,... [ Continue Reading ]
DEFILED... PROFANED. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:31). App-92. Compare Ezekiel 22:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. LO. _Figure of speech Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Plural _of 'mush._ App-14. WASH THYSELF. Compare Ruth 3:3. PAINTEDST, he. Compare 2 Kings 9:30; Jeremiah 4:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
A STATELY BED. Compare Proverbs 7:16. Isa 67:8, Isa 67:9,... [ Continue Reading ]
MULTITUDE, &c.. a careless throng. WITH HER: or, in her: i.e. in Jerusalem. MEN OF THE COMMON SORT. men out of the mass of mankind. MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'enosh,_ App-14. THE COMMON SORT. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. SABEANS. Hebrew text reads "drunkards", But margin, and some codices, with three... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHE. even hers. Ginsburg thinks it should read so it was". Compare Ezekiel 16:15; Ezekiel 16:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WENT. Hebrew text reads "came he".. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), with some codices, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "came they".... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RIGHTEOUS... SHALL JUDGE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 20:10). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMPANY. a gathered host.... [ Continue Reading ]
SINS. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44. YE SHALL KNOW, &c. Occurs only here, Ezekiel 13:9. and Ezekiel 24:24. Compare note on Ezekiel 6:7.... [ Continue Reading ]