“ They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy faire jewels. ”
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...
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. They shall also strip thee - See on Ezekiel 16:39 (note).
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes - whereby she attracted her paramours ( Ezekiel 16:39 ).
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...
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes ,.... As such who are taken captives are usually served: and take away, thy fair jewels ; their ornaments of every kind: or "the vessels of thy glory"...
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. Ver. 26. They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes. ] Wherein thou hast so much prided thyself. And take away...
I will set my jealousy against thee , &c. I will be against thee, as a jealous man is against his wife; and they shall deal furiously And they, as the executioners of my wrath, shall act towar...
The Punishment of Jerusalem. B. C. 591. 22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord...
Strip thee out of thy clothes; both as lewd, disgraced harlots and as captives are used: see Ezekiel 16:39 . Thy fair jewels; all thy rich, beautiful ornaments: see Ezekiel 16:17 . They sha...
“And I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears, and your residue will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and y...
( Ezekiel 23:22-35 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The transgression of Jerusalem is followed by her punishment. Ezekiel 23:23 . “ Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa .” “From the circumstance that these names occur in...
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 Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms
1 Peter 3:3 ; 1 Peter 3:4 ; Ezekiel 16:16 ; Ezekiel 16:37 ; Ezekiel 16:39 ; Ezekiel 23:29 ; Hosea 2:10 ; Hosea 2:3 ; Hosea 2:9 ; Isaiah 3:17-24 ; Jeremiah 13:22 ; Revelation 17:16 ; Reve...