Ezekiel 23:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. ”

• Ezekiel 23:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The sending of “messengers” refers to the act of Ahaz 2 Kings 16:7 .

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. Sent messengers unto them into Chaldea - ( Ezekiel 16:29 ). It was she that solicit...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Saw them with her eyes. — This is to be taken in a sense wide enough to include knowledge obtained in any way, as well as by actual sight. The intercourse between Judæa and Babylon was so close tha...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them ,.... As lustful women, on the sight of the pictures of men, fall in love with them, and are mad after them; such a vehement desire aft...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. Ver. 16. And as soon as she saw them with her eyes. ] Here began the mischief. Ut vidi...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. B. C. 591.       11 And when her sister Aholibah saw thi...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Saw them; the portraits of them. She doted upon them; like an unsatiable and most impudent adulteress, she fell into most inordinate affection for their persons on sight of their pictures. Sent...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “And as soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messages to them to Chaldea.” This possibly has in mind the action of Hezekiah ( Isaiah 39:1-8 ; 2 Kings 20:12-19 ), depicted in terms of a...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ( 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....

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Spiritual Adultery of the two Kingdoms

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• Ezekiel 23:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 24:1 ; 2 Peter 2:14 ; 2 Samuel 11:2 ; Ezekiel 16:17 ; Ezekiel 16:29 ; Ezekiel 23:40 ; Ezekiel 23:41 ; Genesis 3:6 ; Genesis 39:7 ; Genesis 6:2 ; Job 31:1 ; Matthew 5:28 ; Proverb...

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