Ezekiel 23:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, ”

Ezekiel 23:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Aholah played the harlot when (d) she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours, (d) When the Israelites were named the people of God, they became idolaters and fo...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, And Aholah played the harlot - Without entering into detail here, or following the figu...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, Aholah played the harlot when she was mine - literally, 'when she was under me,'...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Assyrians her neighbours. — Or, the Assyrians drawing near. They are described in Ezekiel 23:40 as those who “come from far.” The nearness here spoken of is to be understood not locally, bu...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine ,.... His married wife, and so ought to have cleaved to him alone: or, under me o; under his cover, power, and protection, and therefore it was their i...
Ezekiel 23:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours, Ver. 5. And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine. ] Fornicata est sub me, un...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine When she was under my government and protection. “After she had lived in covenant with me, and attended upon my service and worship all the time of th...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. B. C. 591. 1 The word of the L ORD came again unto m...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Aholah, the kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes, played the harlot; united in confederacy in civil concerns, and in idolatry as to religious concerns, with the Assyrians. When she was mine; wh...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Fall of Oholah (of Samaria). “And Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine.” Here was the first downfall after the restoration. Oholah had proved false. She had been Yahweh's own, but s...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( Ezekiel 23:5-10 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The spiritual adultery of Samaria with Assyria. The instrument of her punishment is that very people which she had made the object of her impure love. Ezekiel...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - 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...
Ezekiel 23:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Spiritual Adultery of the two Kingdoms
Ezekiel 23:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 14:16 ; 1 Kings 14:9 ; 1 Kings 15:26 ; 1 Kings 15:30 ; 1 Kings 16:31 ; 1 Kings 16:32 ; 1 Kings 21:26 ; 2 Kings 15:19 ; 2 Kings 16:7 ; 2 Kings 17:3 ; 2 Kings 17:7-18 ; Ezekiel 16:2...
Ezekiel 23:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Played the harlot — United in idolatry, with the Assyrians. Mine — When under my government, and protection.

Ezekiel 23:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 23:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 23:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 23:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 23:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 23:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 23:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 23:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 23:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 23:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 23:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 23:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 23:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes