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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 23:49

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 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 23:49

49. bear the sins of your idols—that is, the punishment of your idolatry. know that I am the Lord God—that is, know it to your cost . . . by bitter suffering. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 23:36-49

A summary judgment for Israel’s unfaithfulness 23:36-49This final message brings Oholah and Oholibah back together and passes judgment on all Israel. It is a summary oracle for the section that indicts Israel’s leaders (chs. 20-23). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 23:46-49

The Lord commanded a group of soldiers to attack these cities and to terrorize and plunder them. These invaders would stone the guilty (the punishment for adulterers and murderers in the Mosaic Law), slay them and their children with their swords, and burn their houses. Thus the Lord would cause such shameful unfaithfulness to cease from His land (cf. Ezekiel 22:15), and He would teach other nations not to do as these two "women" had done. Samaria and Jerusalem would bear their punishment for... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 23:1-49

The Unchaste Sisters, Oholah and OholibahThe idolatries and foreign alliances of Jerusalem and Samaria are here described under the same strong figure which is used in Ezekiel 16. Oholah (Samaria) and Oholibah (Jerusalem) were two sisters, both seduced in Egypt in their youth (Ezekiel 23:3), both espoused by God (Ezekiel 23:4), and both unfaithful to Him. Samaria took as her lovers first the Assyrians (Ezekiel 23:5-7), and then the Egyptians (Ezekiel 23:8), and was at length slain by the former... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 23:48

(48) To cease.—By the removal of the sinners. “All women,” in accordance with the allegory, means all nations. The judgments upon Israel should be then, and for all time, a conspicuous monument of God’s righteous severity. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 23:49

(49) Bear the sins of your idols—i.e., the punishment of the sins which you have committed in worshipping your idols. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:1-49

OHOLA AND OHOLIBAHEzekiel 23:1-49THE 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 into it are all such as we are now familiar with. They are: the idolatry of Israel, learned in Egypt and persisted in to the end of her history; her fondness for alliances with the great Oriental empires, which was the occasion of new developments of idolatry; the corruption of religion by the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ezekiel 23:1-49

In Ezekiel 23:1-49 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 latter denotes the fact that the true sanctuary was in Judah. The sins and vileness of both are portrayed throughout this long chapter, as well as the deserved punishment. read more

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