Ezekiel 23
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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

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Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

the names
The kingdom of Israel, of which Samaria was the capital, containing ten tribes, and occupying a larger extent of country than that of Judah, is therefore called `her elder sister;' and Aholah, the name given to her, implies that the whole religious establishment in Israel was a human invention, a temple and service of their own, and not God's appointment. Aholibah, the name given to Judah, implies that the worship established there was from God, and that His temple was truly at Jerusalem.

the elder

Ezekiel 16:40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone …

1 Kings 12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come …

they were

Ezekiel 16:8,20 Now when I passed by you, and looked on you, behold, your time was …

Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, …

Psalm 45:11-16 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; …

Jeremiah 2:2,3 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; …

Romans 7:4 Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body …

Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle

1 Kings 12:26-33 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the …

John 4:22 You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation …

Aholibah. that is, my tabernacle in her.

1 Kings 8:29 That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even …

Psalm 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

Psalm 132:13,14 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation…

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

Aholah. The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria.

1 Kings 14:9,16 But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone …

1 Kings 15:26,30 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of …

1 Kings 16:31,32 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk …

1 Kings 21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things …

2 Kings 17:7-18 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the …

doted

Ezekiel 23:7,9,12,16,20 Thus she committed her prostitutions with them, with all them that …

Ezekiel 16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have …

Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is …

on the

Ezekiel 16:28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were …

2 Kings 15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave …

2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, …

2 Kings 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became …

Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went …

Hosea 8:9,10 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by himself: …

Hosea 10:6 It shall be also carried to Assyria for a present to king Jareb: …

Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily …

Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

with girdles

1 Samuel 18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave …

Isaiah 22:21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your …

all of

Judges 8:18 Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they …

2 Samuel 14:25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom …

look to. That is, `princes in appearance;' which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

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Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

I will set

Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to …

Ezekiel 8:1-18 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the …

Ezekiel 16:38-42 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood …

Exodus 34:14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, …

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …

Deuteronomy 32:21,22 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have …

Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in …

Songs 8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm: for love is …

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them …

they shall take away. This refers to the severe vengeance which enraged husbands took on their faithless wives: and implies that God would employ the Chaldeans to destroy the princes and priests of Judah, for violating their covenants and treaties. Such punishments were anciently common; and such is the present practice in one of the South Sea Islands.

they shall take thy

Ezekiel 23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with …

Hosea 2:4,5 And I will not have mercy on her children; for they be the children …

thy residue

Ezekiel 15:6,7 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees …

Ezekiel 20:47,48 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus …

Ezekiel 22:18-22 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are …

Revelation 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, …

They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

will I

Ezekiel 16:41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments …

Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the …

Isaiah 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this …

Micah 5:10-14 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD, that I will …

Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that …

and thy

Ezekiel 23:3,19 And they committed prostitutions in Egypt; they committed prostitutions …

so that. These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it. This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment. For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

drink

Psalm 60:3 You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink …

Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand …

Jeremiah 25:15-28 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …

Jeremiah 48:26 Make you him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: …

Matthew 20:22,23 But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Are you able …

Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of …

Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according …

thou shalt be

Ezekiel 22:4,5 You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have …

Ezekiel 25:6 For thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, …

Ezekiel 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she …

Ezekiel 35:15 As you did rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because …

Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because they …

Deuteronomy 28:37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among …

1 Kings 9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; …

Psalm 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and …

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …

Lamentations 2:15,16 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …

Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when …

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

Because

Ezekiel 23:12 She doted on the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed …

Isaiah 17:10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not …

Jeremiah 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people …

Jeremiah 3:21 A voice was heard on the high places, weeping and supplications of …

Jeremiah 13:25 This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, said the …

Jeremiah 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams …

Jeremiah 32:33 And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught …

Hosea 8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah …

Hosea 13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, …

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …

and cast

1 Kings 14:9 But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone …

Nehemiah 9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and …

therefore

Ezekiel 23:45-49 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of …

Ezekiel 7:4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will …

Ezekiel 44:10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went …

Leviticus 24:15 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses …

Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even …

Numbers 18:22 Neither must the children of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle …

The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

they have

Ezekiel 23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on …

Ezekiel 16:32 But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead …

Hosea 1:2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said …

Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, …

and blood

Ezekiel 23:39,45 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they …

Ezekiel 16:36,38 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out…

Ezekiel 22:2-4 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? …

Ezekiel 24:6-9 Why thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose …

2 Kings 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem …

Psalm 106:37,38 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils…

Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …

Jeremiah 7:6,9 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and …

Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing …

Micah 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kill the prophets, and stone them that …

have also

Ezekiel 23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: …

Ezekiel 16:20,21,36,45 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have …

Ezekiel 20:26,31 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass …

Leviticus 18:21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, …

Leviticus 20:2-5 Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever he be of …

Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to …

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the …

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and …

Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley …

Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of …

Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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