Ezekiel 16:28 - Exposition

With the Assyrians . Here also the words include political alliances like that of Ahaz with Tiglath-Pileser ( 2 Kings 16:7 ), as well as the adoption of idolatrous worship. The latter probably followed under Ahaz as a consequence of the former, and afterwards spread through the influence of the Assyrian colonists—each nation with its own deities—in Samaria ( 2 Kings 17:24 ). The culture of the queen of heaven ( Jeremiah 44:17 ), i.e. of the Assyrian Ishtar, may have had this origin. Yet couldest not be satisfied. One is reminded once more of Juvenal ('Sat.,' 6:130).