John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:3
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt ,.... When they were but one body, one nation; and while they sojourned as strangers in that land they learned and practised the idolatries of it, Joshua 24:14 , and so the Targum, "and they erred in Egypt, after the worship of their idols they erred, and there they corrupted their works:' they committed whoredoms in their youth ; as soon as they were come out of Egypt, and were formed into a political and ecclesiastical state, had the law of God... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 23:1-10
God had often spoken to Ezekiel, and by him to the people, to this effect, but now his word comes again; for God speaks the same thing once, yea, twice, yea, many a time, and all little enough, and too little, for man perceives it not. Note, To convince sinners of the evil of sin, and of their misery and danger by reason of it, there is need of line upon line, so loth we are to know the worst of ourselves. The sinners that are here to be exposed are two women, two kingdoms, sister-kingdoms,... read more