Ezekiel 23:49

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 23:36-49

After the ten tribes were carried into captivity, and that kingdom was made quite desolate, the remains of it by degrees incorporated with the kingdom of Judah, and gained a settlement (many of them) in Jerusalem; so that the two sisters had in effect become one again; and therefore, in these verses, the prophet takes those to task jointly who were thus conjoined: ?Wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah together? Ezek. 23:36. Wilt thou go about to frame an excuse for them? Thou seest the matter... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:49

And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you ,.... Or, "give your lewdness" F17 ונתנו זמתכנה "et dabunt scelus vestrum", V. L. Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius. ; the punishment of it; the just recompence of reward for their idolatry: and ye shall bear the sins of your idols ; the shame, and guilt, and punishment of their sins committed in worshipping idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord God ; the only Lord God who is to be worshipped, and not idols; jealous of my... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 23:49

Ye shall bear the sins of your idols - The punishment due to your adultery; your apostasy from God, and setting up idolatry in the land. 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 23:45-49

The judgment to be executed by the hands of their allies.Ezekiel 23:45The righteous men - Or, righteous men. The allies are so called as the instruments of God’s righteous judgments.Ezekiel 23:48To cease - Because they are stricken and consumed. Compare marginal reference.All women - i. e., all countries. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 23:45-49

Ezekiel 23:45-49. And the righteous men, they shall judge them All just judges, yea, all men that have any sense of common honesty, will condemn their conduct, and pronounce them deserving of the punishment of adulteresses and murderers. Or, as others interpret the words, “As upright magistrates used to condemn and execute judgment upon adulterers and murderers, so did the prophets, in the name of God, denounce sentence against Jerusalem and Samaria; and even the heathen princes, who... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:36-49

Judgment on the two sisters (23:36-49)The prophet links the two kingdoms for his summary of God’s judgment on them. Both kingdoms had copied the religious practices of their treaty partners, even to the extent of offering their children as blood sacrifices to foreign gods. They deliberately broke God’s law and defiled his temple (36-39).Both kingdoms acted like prostitutes, enticing foreign nations so that they could join with them in unions that were immoral and ungodly (40-41). These foreign... read more

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

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