The abominations of Aholah and Aholibah. Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers. The prophet reproveth the adulteries of them both, and sheweth their judgments.
Before Christ 592.
THE style of this chapter, like that of chap. 16:, is adapted to men among whom, at that time, no refinement subsisted. Large allowance must be made for language addressed to an ancient eastern people, in the worst period of their history; all whose ideas were sensual, and whose grand inducement to idolatry seems to have been the brutal impurities which it encouraged.