Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 23:1-3
The Lord gave Ezekiel a story about two sisters who had one mother (cf. Jeremiah 3:7). These young girls became prostitutes in Egypt and allowed men to fondle their breasts. That is, they allowed the Egyptians to become intimate with them even though they were to be faithful to the Lord alone (cf. Ezekiel 16:26; Ezekiel 20:7-8; Numbers 25:3-9; Joshua 24:14; 2 Kings 21:15; Hosea 1:2). One evidence of the idolatry that the Israelites had adopted from the Egyptians came to the surface in the... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 23:2
2. two . . . of one mother—Israel and Judah, one nation by birth from the same ancestress, Sarah. read more