Ezekiel 23:12-15
The army of the Assyrians is described. War-horses formed an important part in the armies of Assyria and Egypt; Israel was deficient in this respec...
Ezekiel 23. Fatal Alliance with Foreigners. This is the third and last of the three great indictments (Ezekiel 16, 20) which draw their material fr...
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. Clothed with blue - The purple dye...
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. Which were clothed with blue...
The Unchaste Sisters, Oholah and Oholibah The idolatries and foreign alliances of Jerusalem and Samaria are here described under the same strong f...
Horsemen. — The Assyrians, like the Egyptians, made large use of cavalry, as was necessary to a warlike nation; the multiplication of horses had on...
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 connec...
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...
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 re...
Which were clothed with blue ,.... A colour the Assyrians were fond of, and clothed their soldiers in, and was taking to the eye; and is mentioned,...
Ezekiel 23:6 [Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. Ver. 6. Which we...
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 atten...
The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. B. C. 591....
Clothed with blue; richly apparelled, and, as the humour of that nation, in rich and beautiful blue, very magnificent to the eye. Captains; darin...
“And she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, hor...
( Ezekiel 23:5-10 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The spiritual adultery of Samaria with Assyria. The instrument of her punishment is that very people which she...
Ezekiel 23:2 . There were two women, the daughters of one mother. Samaria and Jerusalem, cities introduced in the female character, as in Ezekiel...
Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah. Aholah and Aholibah I. Sin is self-polluting and therefore self-destroying. Constant contact with sin...
EXPOSITION After another pause, the prophet enters on another elaborate parallel, after the pattern of Ezekiel 16:1-26 ; but with a marked vari...
The Spiritual Adultery of the two Kingdoms
which were clothed with blue, the royal purple of ancient times, Israel being seduced by the splendor and pomp of Assyria, captains and rulers, all...
Horsemen — Skillful in riding, and well furnished with choice horses.
6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.