Ezekiel 23:26-29

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 23:22-35

Jerusalem stands indicted by the name of Aholibah, for that she, as a false traitor to her sovereign Lord the God of heaven, not having his fear before her eyes, but moved by the instigation of the devil, had revolted from her allegiance to him, had compassed and imagined to shake off his government, had kept up a correspondence had joined in confederacy with his enemies, and the pretenders to a deity, in contempt of his crown and dignity. To this indictment she has pleaded, Not guilty: I am... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:26

They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes ,.... As such who are taken captives are usually served: and take away, thy fair jewels ; their ornaments of every kind: or "the vessels of thy glory" F3 כלי תפארתך "vasa gloria tuae", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "instrumenta ornatus tui", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator; "vasa ornatus tui", Starckius. ; Kimchi observes this may be meant either of the garments of the priests, and the vessels of the sanctuary; or of whole... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:27

Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee ,.... That is, their idolatry; for, after this captivity, the Jews never were guilty of idolatry any more: and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt ; the idolatry which they learned there, and brought from thence; so the Targum, "the worship of thine idols, which was with thee when thou wast in the land of Egypt:' so that thou shall not lift up thine eyes unto them ; to the idols of Egypt, to pray unto them, and worship them: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:28

For thus saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest ,.... The Chaldeans and Babylonians, before loved by her, and doted upon, but now hated and rebelled against; and to fall into such hands must be a sore judgment; and this the Lord threatens to bring upon the Jews for their sins; and he having said it, it might be depended upon it would be performed; and, for the greater certainty of it, it is repeated in different words: into the hand of them from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:29

And they shall deal with thee hatefully ,.... The Chaldeans should hate the Jews as much as before they loved them, when they came into the bed of love to them, Ezekiel 23:17 and as much as the Jews hated them; which they showed by their severe and rigorous usage of them, putting some to the sword, carrying the rest captive, and employing them in hard service and labour; and, which is still worse, and an aggravation of all this: and shall take away all thy labour ; whatever they got by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 23:26

They shall also strip thee - See on Ezekiel 16:39 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 23:1-49

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 23:1-49

Inexcusable infidelity. What it must have cost the patriotic prophet to write this chapter passes our power to imagine. The Jew was naturally and pardonably proud of his country and of its history. No thoughtful Jew could, indeed, be insensible to imperfections and flaws in the national character, to stains upon the nation's annals. But in this passage of his prophecies the dark shading is relieved by no gleam of light. Israel is depicted as bad from the days of Egyptian bondage down to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 23:27

Thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt ; i.e. the last political alliance between Judah and Egypt. This, together with the Egyptian cultus that accompanied it, should be made to cease. That would no longer be in the thoughts of the exiles; their hopes from that quarter were extinguished forever. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 23:27

A severe judgment and its satisfactory consequences. "Thus will! make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt," etc. The sin referred to in this verse is the idolatry of the people. Two of its clauses make this quite clear. "Thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt;… thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them." The form of the idols which Jeroboam set up he derived from Egypt, where he had resided for some time. In setting up the golden calves... read more

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