Ezekiel 23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:5

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine ,.... His married wife, and so ought to have cleaved to him alone: or, under me F15 תחתי "sub me", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Tigurine version. Piscator, Cocceius, Starckius. ; under his cover, power, and protection, and therefore it was their interest to serve him only: or, "instead of me" F16 "Exteros excipiens loco meo", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus. ; or, as the Syriac version, "besides me": they worshipped other gods in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:6

Which were clothed with blue ,.... A colour the Assyrians were fond of, and clothed their soldiers in, and was taking to the eye; and is mentioned, because that men, finely clothed find beautifully arrayed, are more engaging to women, who are fond of dress: captains and rulers ; men of power and authority in military and civil affairs, either in the camp, or in the court; officers either in the army, or in the king's palace; and which was a recommendation of them: desirable young men ... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:7

Thus she committed her whoredoms with them ,.... Entered into alliance with them, and joined them in their idolatrous worship: with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria ; before described by their habit, office, and age: and with all on whom she doted ; had an insatiable desire and lust after: with all their idols she defiled herself ; worshipped all the idols the Assyrians did; and which were defiling, as they must needs be, since, as the word used signifies, they were... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:8

Neither left she her idols brought from Egypt ,.... Though the Israelites took in the gods of the Assyrians into their worship, they did not relinquish the golden calves set up at Dan and Bethel, in imitation of the Egyptian deities; the idolatrous worship of which they learned in Egypt, and brought from thence: for in her youth they lay with her ; the Egyptians enticed the Israelites to idolatry when among them, as soon as they began to be a people; See Gill on Ezekiel 23:3 , and... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:9

Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers ,.... To destruction; their persons, families, riches, and kingdom itself: into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted ; first into the hands of Pul, then Tiglathpileser, then Shalmaneser, all kings of Assyria, by whom they were spoiled or carried captive; by the two first in part, by the last wholly; see 2 Kings 15:19 . read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:10

These discovered her wickedness ,.... That is, stripped them of all their substance: they took her sons and her daughters ; and carried them captive: and slew her with the sword ; put an end to the kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes, and which was never recovered to this day: and she became famous among women ; or among the provinces, as the Targum; she became famous, or rather infamous, among other nations; was talked of for her sins, her whoredoms and idolatries, and the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:11

And when her sister Aholibah saw this ,.... The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, when, they saw the idolatries the ten tribes fell into, and the destruction which came upon them for the same; instead of receiving instruction, and taking caution by all this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she ; in courting the friendship, alliance, and help of their Heathen neighbours: and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms ; guilty of more idolatries than the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:12

She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours ,.... As in the times of Ahaz, who sent to Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, for help; and from whence he took the pattern of an altar, and had one built like it at Jerusalem, and offered upon it, 2 Kings 16:7 , captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously ; or "perfectly" F17 מכלול "omni genera pulchrarum vestinto", Pagninus; "absoluto vestira", Montanus; "perfectione, sive universitate, sub. vestium", Vatablus; "perfectissime",... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:13

Then I saw that she was defiled ,.... With idols, and the worship of them, Ezekiel 23:7 , that they took both one way ; the same way of idolatry; worshipped the same idols, lived the same course of life, were guilty of the same sin, both Israel and Judah. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:14

And that she increased her whoredoms ,.... Added to the number of her idols, increased her idols, and even was guilty of more than her sister: for when she saw men portrayed on the wall ; of the temple, as idols were, Ezekiel 8:10 or upon the wall of a private house, where they were worshipped as household gods: the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion : the images of their heroes, who after death were deified; and these, being drawn upon the wall with vermilion, which,... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:14

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