Ezekiel 23:35-49

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

Matthew Henry

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 23:35

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, because thou hast forgotten me ,.... His word, worship, and ordinances, and did not attend unto them, but worshipped strange gods: so the Targum, "because thou hast left my worship:' and cast me behind thy back; or, as the same paraphrase, "hast cast the fear of me from before thine eyes;' or out of thy sight, his laws and statutes; see Nehemiah 9:26 , as men cast behind their backs that which they have no value for and loath, and which they do... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:36

The Lord said moreover unto me, son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah ?.... Plead the cause of Israel and Judah? say any thing in their defence, and in excuse of them? or intercede and pray for them, that threatened judgments may not come upon them? no, do nothing of this kind; if thou wilt do anything, do as follows: yea, declare unto them their abominations ; their abominable sins, their murders, adulteries, and idolatries; set them in a true light before them, in all their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:37

That they have committed adultery ,.... Either literally, adultery with their neighbours' wives, which was a prevailing sin with this people; or figuratively, spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry: and blood is in their hands ; the Targum is, "they have shed the blood of innocents with their hands;' the blood of prophets and righteous men, sent unto them; and the blood of their infants in sacrificing to idols, as after mentioned: and with their idols have they committed adultery ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:38

Moreover this they have done unto me ,..... The following piece of wickedness, which was very provoking to the Lord: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day ; as they caused their children to pass through the tire to their idols, by entering into the sanctuary when they had so done, and were thus defiled, and by offering sacrifices to their idols in it; or under pretence of serving the Lord, when they had just been guilty of murder and idolatry: and have profaned my sabbaths ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:39

For when they had slain their children to their idols ,.... This explains more clearly what is before said, that by causing their children to pass through the fire was a slaying them; and that their passing through it "for them" was for their idols, and unto them; see Ezekiel 23:37 , and how when they had been guilty of such shocking wickedness, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it ; not that they came into the temple on purpose to profane it; but coming into it,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:40

And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far ,.... From Egypt, Assyria, and Chaldea, to treat with them, and enter into alliances and confederacies with them, and to join them in their idolatrous practices; these Heathen nations did not send to the Jews, but the Jews to them; they did not court their friendship and alliance, but the Jews courted theirs: unto whom a messenger was sent ; to court their favour, and solicit a confederacy, and to desire that ambassadors might... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:41

And satest upon a stately bed ,.... Or honourable F7 כבודה "honorato", Junius and Tremellius, Polanus, Coeccius, Starckius. , a bed of state: either a throne, a royal seat under a canopy, on which the king of Judah sat to receive foreign ambassadors; or a stately bed at a feast, made for the entertainment of them; it being usual in the eastern nations to sit on beds at eating, to which the next clause agrees. The allusion is to a harlot sitting on a bed decked out by her to allure... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 23:42

And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her ,.... With Aholibah, with the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin: or, "in her", in Jerusalem; or "in it", or "about it" F8 בה "in ea", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "in illa", Cocceius, Starckius, "in illo", Piscator; "circa eam", a Lapide. ; the bed, or table, or both: these were either the people of the many nations that came in great numbers with the ambassadors, as their retinue, and for the... read more

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