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John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Ezekiel 23:48

23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all {t} women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.(t) Meaning, all other cities and countries. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:1-49

CLOSE OF PART ONE Lack of space makes it necessary to crowd the remainder of Part 1 into a single lesson, but nothing vital to its general understanding will be lost, as the chapters are, to a certain extent, repetitions of the foregoing. LAMENTATIONS FOR THE PRINCES (Ezekiel 19:0 ) The theme of this chapter is found in the first and last verses. The “princes” are the kings of Judah Jehoahaz, Jehoiachin and Zedekiah, whose histories were made familiar in the closing chapters of 2 Kings ,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ezekiel 23:36-49

We have here only a continuation of the same melancholy rehearsal of crimes, of one sister that had been charged also against the other. The subject is but one, though lengthened so many verses. I will not unnecessarily swell the pages, and therefore shall add no further comment. It will be a blessed sanctified subject, both to the Writer and Reader, if from the whole our minds are led to the conclusion of the Holy Ghost by the Apostle; God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he might have... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ezekiel 23:49

REFLECTIONS READER! what are your own views of human nature at large, in reading the sad account of sin and rebellion in this Chapter? And yet more what think you of the Israel of God, in beholding the baseness here manifested by a professing people to the God of Israel? What will any man think of taking confidence in himself, after such views of a fallen nature. Reader! is it not enough to cause every believer to go softly all his days? And will not such humbling representations of nature,... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Ezekiel 23:22-49

The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms v. 22. Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God, the sovereign Ruler of the universe, Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, the very allies upon whose constancy Jerusalem thought she could depend, from whom thy mind is alienated, as she turned from Assyria to Egypt, and I will bring them against thee on every side, in manifest enmity, with a desire to wreak their vengeance upon the fickle wanton: v. 23. the Babylonians and all... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ezekiel 23:1-49

(b) Judah and Israel’s Ripeness for Judgment (Ezekiel 23:0.)1And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 2Son of man, there were 3two women, the daughters of one mother; And in Egypt they played the wanton; in their youth they wantoned, there were their breasts pressed, and 4there were the teats of their virginity bruised. And their names were “Oholah,” the great [greater], and “Oholibah” her sister; and they were mine, and bare sons and daughters; and their names were Samaria—Oholah, 5and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 23:1-49

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 her confederacy with the Assyrians in that she allowed herself to be seduced by their wealth and their strength, from her loyalty to Jehovah. He also reminded her of her former confederacy with Judah. In consequence of this double sin she was handed over to the Assyrians who overcame and oppressed... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 23:48

“Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.” This destruction will be a lesson to all women not to indulge in immoral practises. It will also rid the land of such behaviour once and for all. As the next verse demonstrates this suggestion of lewdness also includes idolatry, but it must not simply be seen as referring to that, as the reference to its applicability especially to women makes clear. It refers to all lewd... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 23:49

“And they will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. And you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” The enemy will carry out God’s judgment. They will punish Jerusalem and Samaria for their behaviour. And God’s erstwhile people will receive the punishment that they deserve for their idolatry. Thus will they be made to recognise Who and What Yahweh really is, that He is the covenant God and requires full obedience to His covenant. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 23:1-49

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 present. Its underlying imagery is the same as that of ch. 16, but it differs from that chapter in dealing with the northern and southern kingdoms separately ( cf. Ezekiel 16:46) and in emphasizing political rather than religious entanglements, though of course foreign alliances did as a matter... read more

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