Ezekiel 23:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

These used her as lewd women deserve, stripped her naked, and exposed her to shame, as Ezekiel 23:26. God her Husband had clothed her, and covered her nakedness, but she lightly esteemed her God, doted on idols, and idolaters strip her. They took her sons and her daughters; made them captives, and carried them away as slaves, to serve the lusts of barbarous conquerors; so both sexes were used. Slew her with the sword: as a person slain with the sword ceaseth to be, so this kingdom of Israel under Hoshea was by the sword of Shalmaneser utterly destroyed. She became famous; her lewdness made her infamous, and God's judgments for it made her more known in the world. For they, the Assyrians, a proud, bitter, and violent enemy, had executed judgment upon her; had executed their own malicious revenges, but God's just displeasure, upon her.

Ezekiel 23:10

10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famousc among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.