“ Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, ”
Ezekiel 23. Fatal Alliance with Foreigners. This is the third and last of the three great indictments (Ezekiel 16, 20) which draw their material from the past rather than (as Ezekiel 22) from the p...
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, They took both one way - both alike forsaking God for pagan confidences.
The Unchaste Sisters, Oholah and Oholibah The idolatries and foreign alliances of Jerusalem and Samaria are here described under the same strong figure which is used in Ezekiel 16 . Oholah (Samar...
OHOLA AND OHOLIBAH Ezekiel 23:1-49 THE allegory of chapter 23 adds hardly any new thought to those which have already, been expounded in connection with chapter 16 and chapter 20. The ideas whi...
The next prophecy dealt with the sins of Samaria and Jerusalem under the figures of two women, Oholah and Oholibah. The prophet first described their sins. Samaria was charged with unfaithfulness in...
The Reader will enter into the beauties of this Chapter, and the design of it also, if he takes with him the consideration all the way along as he reads it, that the whole scope of the Chapter is to...
Then I saw that she was defiled ,.... With idols, and the worship of them, Ezekiel 23:7 : that they took both one way ; the same way of idolatry; worshipped the same idols, lived the same course...
Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both one way, Ver. 13. Then I saw that she was defiled. ] Whence it is that man's nature is so prone to idolatry, and why that sin is compared t...
Then When she neither took warning nor feared; I saw that she was defiled That her heart was already set on her idols; that they both Samaria and Jerusalem; took one way That Judah fell into...
The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. B. C. 591. 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw thi...
Then; when she took not warning, neither feared. She was defiled; her heart was already on her idols. Both Samaria and Jerusalem took one way; chose the same idols and idolatry.
“She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbours, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. And I saw that she was defiled. They both took...
( Ezekiel 23:11-21 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The spiritual adultery of Judah with Assyria, in which she surpasses Samaria in her iniquity. Ezekiel 23:11 . “She was more corrupt in her inordinate love....
Ezekiel 23:2 . There were two women, the daughters of one mother. Samaria and Jerusalem, cities introduced in the female character, as in Ezekiel 23:10 ; Ezekiel 23:48 . Ezekiel 23:4 . Samari...
Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah. Aholah and Aholibah I. Sin is self-polluting and therefore self-destroying. Constant contact with sin will pollute the conscience, and render it powerl...
EXPOSITION After another pause, the prophet enters on another elaborate parallel, after the pattern of Ezekiel 16:1-26 ; but with a marked variation. There we have the history of one harlot, s...
The Spiritual Adultery of the two Kingdoms
2 Kings 17:18 ; 2 Kings 17:19 ; Ezekiel 23:31 ; Hosea 12:1 ; Hosea 12:2