Ezekiel 23:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

She doted upon their paramours - i:e., her paramours among them (the Egyptians); she doted upon their persons as her paramours (Ezekiel 23:5; Ezekiel 23:12; Ezekiel 23:16).

Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses - the membrum virile (very large in the donkey). (Ezekiel 16:26.)

Issue of horses - the seminal issue (Leviticus 15:2). The horse was made by the Egyptians the hieroglyphic for a lustful person.

Ezekiel 23:20

20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.