Jeremiah 2:20-21

For of.

30:8; Ex 3:8; Le 26:13; De 4:20,34; 15:15; Isa 9:4; 10:27; 14:25

Na 1:13

and thou saidst.

Ex 19:8; 24:3; De 5:27; 26:17; Jos 1:16; 24:26-24; 1Sa 12:10

transgress. or, serve. when upon.

3:6; De 12:2; 1Ki 12:32; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5-7; Eze 16:24,25,31

Eze 20:28

playing.

3:1,6-8; Ex 34:14-16; De 12:2; Isa 1:21; Eze 16:15,16,28,41; 23:5

Ho 2:5; 3:3

Yet I.

Ex 15:17; Ps 44:2; 80:8; Isa 5:1,2; 60:21; 61:3; Mt 21:33; Mr 12:1

Lu 20:9; Joh 15:1

wholly.

Ge 18:19; 26:3-5; 32:28; De 4:37; Jos 24:31; Ps 105:6; Isa 41:8

into the degenerate.

De 32:32; Isa 1:21; 5:4; La 4:1

Jeremiah 3:1

1 God's great mercy in Judah's vile whoredom.

6 Judah is worse than Israel.

12 The promises of the gospel to the penitent.

20 Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins.

They say. Heb. Saying. If a man.

De 24:1-4

shall not that.

9; 2:7; Le 18:24-28; Isa 24:5; Mic 2:10

but thou hast.

2:20,23; De 22:21; Jud 19:2; Eze 16:26,28,29; 23:4-49

Ho 1:2; 2:5-7

yet return.

12-14,22; 4:1,14; 8:4-6; De 4:29-31; Isa 55:6-9; Eze 33:11

Ho 14:1-4; Zec 1:3; Lu 15:16-24

Lamentations 1:8-9

hath.

5,20; 1Ki 8:46,47; 9:7,9; Isa 59:2-13; Jer 6:28; Eze 14:13-21

Eze 22:2-15

removed. Heb. become a removing, or wandering.

Jer 15:4; 24:9; 34:17; Eze 23:46; *marg:

all.

4:15,16; 5:12-16; 1Sa 2:30

they.

4:21; Isa 47:3; Jer 13:22,26; Eze 16:37-39; 23:29; Ho 2:3,10

Re 3:18

she sigheth.

4,11,21,22; 2:10; Jer 4:31

filthiness.

17; Jer 2:34; 13:27; Eze 24:12,13

she remembereth.

De 32:29; Isa 47:7; Jer 5:31; 1Pe 4:17

came.

1; 4:1; Isa 3:8; Jer 13:17,18

she had.

2,17,21; 2:13; Ec 4:1; Isa 40:2; 54:11; Ho 2:14; Joh 11:19

behold.

Ex 3:7,17; 4:31; De 26:7; 1Sa 1:11; 2Sa 16:12; 2Ki 14:26; Ne 9:32

Ps 25:18; 119:153; Da 9:17-19

for.

De 32:27; Ps 74:8,9,22,23; 140:8; Isa 37:4,17,23,29; Jer 48:26

Jer 50:29; Zep 2:10; 2Th 2:4-8

Ezekiel 16

1 Under the similitude of a wretched infant is shewn the natural state of Jerusalem.

6 God's extraordinary love towards her.

15 Her monstrous whoredom.

35 Her grievous judgment.

44 Her sin, equal to her mother, and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, calls for judgments.

60 Mercy is promised her in the end.

1

cause.

20:4; 22:2; 23:36; 33:7-9; Isa 58:1; Ho 8:1

abominations.

8:9-17

Thy birth. Heb. Thy cutting out, or habitation.

45; 21:30; Ge 11:25,29; Jos 24:14; Ne 9:7; Isa 1:10; 51:1,2

Mt 3:7; 11:24; Lu 3:7; Joh 8:44; Eph 2:3; 1Jo 3:10

Amorite.

Ge 15:16; De 20:17; 1Ki 21:26; 2Ki 21:11

Hittite.

Ezr 9:1

for.

20:8,13; Ge 15:13; Ex 1:11-14; 2:23,24; 5:16-21; De 5:6; 15:15

Jos 24:2; Ne 9:7-9; Ho 2:3; Ac 7:6,7

to supple thee. or, when I looked upon thee. nor.

La 2:20; *marg:

La 2:22; Lu 2:7,12

eye.

2:6; Isa 49:15; La 2:11,19; 4:3,10

but thou.

Ge 21:10; Ex 1:22; Nu 19:16; Jer 9:21,22; 22:19

and saw.

Ex 2:24,25; 3:7,8; Ac 7:34

polluted. or, trodden under foot.

Isa 14:19; 51:23; Mic 7:10; Mt 5:13; Heb 10:29; Re 14:20

Live.

20:5-10; Ex 19:4-6; De 9:4; Ps 105:10-15,26-37; Joh 5:25; Ro 9:15

Eph 2:4,5; Tit 3:3-7

caused, etc. Heb. made thee a million.

Ge 22:17; Ex 1:7; 12:37; Ac 7:17

excellent ornaments. Heb. ornament of ornaments.

10-13,16; Ex 3:22; De 1:10; 4:8; 32:10-14; 33:26-29; Ne 9:18-25

Ps 135:4; 147:20; 148:14; 149:2-4; Isa 61:10; 62:3

whereas.

22; Job 1:21; So 4:5; Ho 2:3,9,10; Re 3:17,18

thy time.

6; De 7:6-8; Ru 3:9; 1Sa 12:22; Isa 41:8,9; 43:4; 63:7-9; Jer 2:2,3

Jer 31:3; Ho 11:1; Mal 1:2; Ro 5:8; 9:10-13

and I.

Ru 3:9

I sware.

20:5,6; Ex 19:4-8; 24:1-8; 32:13; De 4:31; Jer 2:2,3; 31:32

Ho 2:18-20

washed.

4; 36:25; Ps 51:7; Isa 4:4; Joh 13:8-10; 1Co 6:11; 10:2; Heb 9:10-14

1Jo 5:8; Re 1:5,6

blood. Heb. bloods.

6

anointed.

Ps 23:5; 2Co 1:21; 1Jo 2:20,27

clothed.

7; Ps 45:13,14; Isa 61:3,10; Lu 15:22; Re 21:2

broidered.

13,18; Ex 28:5; 1Pe 3:3,4

badgers' skin.

Ex 25:5; 26:14

I girded.

Ex 39:27,28; Re 7:9-14; 19:8

covered.

Ge 41:42; *marg:

Pr 31:22; Re 18:12

I put.

Ge 24:22,47,53

a chain.

Ge 41:42; Pr 1:9; 4:9; So 1:10; 4:9; Isa 3:19; Da 5:7,16,29

forehead. Heb. nose.

Ge 24:22; *marg:

Isa 3:21

ear-rings.

Ge 35:4; Ex 32:2; 35:22; Nu 31:50; Jud 8:24; Job 42:11; Pr 25:12

Ho 2:13

and a.

Le 8:9; Es 2:17; Isa 28:5; La 5:16; Re 2:10; 4:4,10

12

thou didst.

19; De 8:8; 32:13,14; Ps 45:13,14; 81:16; 147:14; Ho 2:5

and thou wast.

14,15; Ps 48:2; 50:2; Isa 64:11; Jer 13:20

and thou didst.

Ge 17:6; 1Sa 12:12; 2Sa 8:15; 1Ki 4:21; Ezr 4:20; 5:11; Ps 50:2

La 2:15

thy renown.

De 4:6-8,32-38; Jos 2:9-11; 9:6-9; 1Ki 10:1-13,24; 2Ch 2:11,12

2Ch 9:23; La 2:15

through.

1Co 4:7

thou didst.

33:13; De 32:15; Isa 48:1; Jer 7:4; Mic 3:11; Zep 3:11; Mt 3:9

and playedst.

20:8; 23:3,8,11,12-21; Ex 32:6-35; Nu 25:1,2; Jud 2:12; 3:6; 10:6

1Ki 11:5; 12:28; 2Ki 17:7; 21:3; Ps 106:35; Isa 1:21; 57:8; Jer 2:20

Jer 3:1; 7:4; Ho 1:2; 4:10; Re 17:5

because.Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.

and pouredst.

25,36,37

7:20; 2Ki 23:7; 2Ch 28:24; Ho 2:8

hast also.

7:19; 23:14-21; Ex 32:1-4; Ho 2:13; 10:1

men. Heb. a male. and didst.

Isa 44:19,20; 57:7,8; Jer 2:27,28; 3:9
This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.

10

meat.

13; De 32:14-17; Ho 2:8-13

a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.

Ge 8:21; *marg:

thy sons.

21; 23:4; Ge 17:7; Ex 13:2,12; De 29:11,12

and these.

20:26,31; 23:37,39; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ch 33:6; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 57:5

Jer 7:31; 32:35; Mic 6:7

be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.

8:17; Jer 2:34,35

my children.

Ps 106:37

to pass.

Le 18:21; 20:1-5; De 18:10; 2Ki 17:17; 21:6; 23:10

3-7,43,60-63; Jer 2:2; Ho 2:3; 11:1

woe.

2:10; 13:3,18; 24:6; Jer 13:27; Zep 3:1; Mt 11:21; 23:13-29; Re 8:13

Re 12:12

thou hast.

31,39; 20:28,29; 2Ki 21:3-7; 23:5-7,11,12; 2Ch 33:3-7

eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.

Le 26:30; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5,7; Jer 2:20; 3:2; 17:3

at every.

31; Ge 38:14,21; Pr 9:14,15; Isa 3:9; Jer 2:23,24; 3:2; 6:15

and hast made.

23:9,10,32; Re 17:1-5,12,13,16

with the.

8:10,14; 20:7,8; 23:3,8,19-21; Ex 32:4; De 29:16,17; Jos 24:14

Isa 30:21

I have.

14:9; Isa 5:25; 9:12,17

and have.

De 28:48-57; Isa 3:1; Ho 2:9-12

thine.{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.

delivered.The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.

37; 23:22,25,28,29,46,47; Ps 106:41; Jer 34:21; Re 17:16

daughters. or, cities.

2Ki 24:2; 2Ch 28:18,19; Isa 9:12

which.

47,57; 5:6,7

23:5-9,12-21; Jud 10:6; 2Ki 16:7,10-18; 21:11; 2Ch 28:23

Jer 2:18,36; Ho 10:6

in the land.

13:14-23; Jud 2:12-19; 2Ki 21:9

unto.

23:14-21

weak.

Pr 9:13; Isa 1:3; Jer 2:12,13; 4:22

the work.

Jud 16:15,16; Pr 7:11-13,21; Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3; Re 17:1-6

In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine,etc.

24,39

makest.

25; Ho 12:11

in that thou scornest.

33,34; Isa 52:3

8; 23:37,45; Jer 2:25,28; 3:1,8,9,20; Ho 2:2; 3:1; 2Co 11:2,3

give.

Ge 38:16-18; De 23:17,18; Ho 2:12; Joe 3:3; Mic 1:7; Lu 15:30

but thou.

Isa 30:3,6,7; 57:9; Ho 8:9,10

hirest. Heb. bribest.

34

O harlot.

Isa 1:21; 23:15,16; Jer 3:1,6-8; Ho 2:5; Na 3:4; Joh 4:10,18

Re 17:5

hear.

13:2; 20:47; 34:7; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14; Ho 4:1; Am 7:16

Because.

15-22; 22:15; 23:8; 24:13; 36:25; La 1:9; Zep 3:1

and thy.

23:10,18,29; Ge 3:7,10,11; Ps 139:11,12; Jer 13:22-26; Re 3:18

and by.

20,21; Jer 2:34

23:9,10,22-30; Jer 4:30; 13:22,26; 22:20; La 1:8,19; Ho 2:3,10

Ho 8:10; Na 3:5,6; Re 17:16

as women. Heb. with judgments of women, etc.

40; 23:45-47; Ge 38:11,24; Le 20:10; De 22:22-24; Mt 1:18,19

Joh 8:3-5

shed.

20,21,36; Ge 9:6; Ex 21:12; Nu 35:31; Ps 79:3-5; Jer 18:21

Zep 1:17; Na 1:2; Re 16:6

And I.For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people.

they shall throw.

24,25,31; 7:22-24; Isa 27:9

shall strip.

10-20; 23:26,29; Isa 3:16-24; Ho 2:3,9-13

thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.

shall also.

Hab 1:6-10; Joh 8:5-7

and thrust.

23:10,47; 24:21; Jer 25:9

burn.

De 13:16; 2Ki 25:9; Jer 39:8; 52:13; Mic 3:12

and execute.

5:8; 23:10,48; De 13:11; 22:21,24; Job 34:26

and I.

23:27; 37:23; Isa 1:25,26; 2:18; 27:9; Ho 2:6-17; Mic 5:10-14

Zec 13:2; 1Ti 5:20

will I.

5:13; 21:17; 2Sa 21:14; Isa 1:24; Zec 6:8

and will.

39:29; Isa 40:1,2; 54:9,10

thou hast.

22; Ps 78:42; 106:13; Jer 2:32

but hast.

6:9; De 32:21; Ps 78:40; 95:10; Isa 63:10; Am 2:13; Ac 7:51

Eph 4:30

I also.

7:3,4,8,9; 9:10; 11:21; 22:31; Ro 2:8,9

every.

18:2,3; 1Sa 24:13

As is.

3,45; 1Ki 21:16; 2Ki 17:11,15; 21:9; Ezr 9:1; Ps 106:35-38

that loatheth.

8,15,20,21; 23:37-39; De 5:9; 12:31; Isa 1:4; *marg:

Zec 11:8; Ro 1:30,31

your mother.

3

elder.

51; 23:4,11,31-33; Jer 3:8-11; Mic 1:5

thy younger sister. Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.

48,49,53-56,61; Ge 13:11-13; 18:20-33; 19:24,25; De 29:23; 32:32

Isa 1:9,10; Jer 23:14; La 4:6; *marg:

Lu 17:28-30; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7; Re 11:8

her daughters.

27; *marg:

26:6; Ge 14:8; 19:29; Ho 11:8

as if that were a very little thing. or, that was loathed asa small thing.

8:17; 1Ki 16:31

thou wast.

48,51; 5:6,7; 2Ki 21:9,16; Joh 15:21,22; 1Co 5:1

Mt 10:15; 11:24; Mr 6:11; Lu 10:12; Ac 7:52

pride.

28:2,9,17; 29:3; Ge 19:9; Ps 138:6; Pr 16:5,18; 18:12; 21:4; Isa 3:9

Isa 16:6; Da 4:30,37; 5:23; Ob 1:3; 1Pe 5:5

fulness.

Ge 13:10; 18:20; De 32:15; Isa 22:13,14; Am 6:3-6; Lu 12:16-20

Lu 16:19; 17:28; 21:34

neither.

18:12; Pr 21:13; Isa 3:14,15; Am 5:11,12; 8:4-6; Mic 3:2-4

Lu 16:20,21

and committed.

Ge 13:13; 18:20; 19:5; Le 18:22; De 23:17; 2Ki 23:7; Pr 16:18

Pr 18:12; Ro 1:26,27; Jude 1:7

therefore.

Ge 19:24; De 29:23; Job 18:15; Isa 13:19; Jer 20:16; 49:18; 50:40

La 4:6; Am 4:11; Zep 2:9; 2Pe 2:6; Re 18:9

Samaria.

Lu 12:47,48; Ro 3:9-20

justified.

Jer 3:8-11; Mt 12:41,42

which hast.

56; Mt 7:1-5; Lu 6:37; Ro 2:1,10,26,27

bear thine.

54,63; 36:6,7,15,31,32; 39:26; 44:13; Jer 23:40; 31:19; 51:51

Ho 10:6; Ro 1:32; 6:21

they are more.

Ge 38:26; 1Sa 24:17; 1Ki 2:32

bring.

60,61; 29:14; 39:25; Job 42:10; Ps 14:7; 85:1; 126:1; Isa 1:9

Jer 20:16; 31:23; 48:47; 49:6,39; Joe 3:1

in the midst.

Isa 19:24,25; Jer 12:16; Ro 11:23-31

thou mayest.

52,63; 36:31,32; Jer 2:26

in that.

14:22,23

then.

53; 36:11; Mal 3:4

was not.

Isa 65:5; Zep 3:11; Lu 15:28-30; 18:11

mentioned. Heb. for a report, or a hearing. pride. Heb.prides, or excellencies.

thy wickedness.

36,37; 21:24; 23:18,19; Ps 50:21; La 4:22; Ho 2:10; 7:1; 1Co 4:5

reproach.

2Ki 16:5-7; 2Ch 28:5,6,18-23; Isa 7:1; 14:28

Syria. Heb. Aram.

Ge 10:22,23; Nu 23:7

the daughters.

27

despise. or, spoil.

Jer 33:24

hast.

23:49; Ge 4:13; La 5:7

borne. Heb. borne them.

I will.

7:4,8,9; 14:4; Isa 3:11; Jer 2:19; Mt 7:1,2; Ro 2:8,9

which.

17:13-16; Ex 24:1-8; De 29:10-15,25; 2Ch 34:31,32; Isa 24:5

Jer 22:9; 31:32

I will remember.

8; Le 26:42,45; Ne 1:5-11; Ps 105:8; 106:45; Jer 2:2; 33:20-26

Ho 2:15; Lu 1:72

I will establish.

37:26,27; Isa 55:3; 2Sa 23:5; Jer 31:31-34; 32:38-41; 50:5

Ho 2:19,20; Heb 8:10; 12:24; 13:20

remember.

63; 20:43; 36:31,32; Job 42:5,6; Ps 119:59; Jer 31:18-20; 50:4,5

when.

53-55; So 8:8,9; Isa 2:2-5; 11:9,10; Ho 1:9-11; Ro 11:11

Ro 15:8,9,16; Ga 4:26,27; Eph 2:12-14; 3:6

I will.

Isa 49:18-23; 54:1,2; 60:4; 66:7-12; Ga 4:26-31

but not.

Jer 31:31-40; Joh 15:16; Heb 8:13

I will.

60; Da 9:27; Ho 2:18-23

and thou.

6:7; 39:22; Jer 24:7; Joe 3:17

remember.

61; 36:31,32; Ezr 9:6; Da 9:7,8

and never.

Job 40:4,5; Ps 39:9; La 3:39; Ro 2:1; 3:19,27; 9:19,20

when.

Ro 5:1,2; 1Co 4:7; Eph 2:3-5; Tit 3:3-7

Ezekiel 22

1 A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews in consequence.

17 God will burn them as dross in his furnace.

23 The general corruption of prophets, priests, princes, and people.

1

judge. or, plead for.

20:4; 23:36

bloody city. Heb. city of bloods.

23:45; 24:6,9; 2Ki 21:16; 24:3,4; Jer 2:30,34; Ho 4:2; Na 3:1

Mt 23:35; 27:25; Lu 11:50; Ac 7:52

thou shalt.

16:2; Isa 58:1; 1Ti 5:20

shew her. Heb. make her know. her abominations.

8:9-17; 16:1-63; 23:1-49

sheddeth.

27; 24:6-9; Zep 3:3

that her.

4; 7:2-12; 12:25; Ro 2:5; 2Pe 2:3

and maketh.

2Ki 21:2-9; Jer 2:1-3:25

that thou.

2; 2Ki 21:16

and thou hast.

Nu 32:14; Mt 23:32,33; 1Th 2:16

have I.

5:14,15; 16:57; 21:28; Le 26:32; De 28:37; 29:24; 1Ki 9:7; 2Ch 7:20

Ps 44:13,14; 79:4; 89:41,42; Jer 18:16; 24:9; 44:8; La 2:15,16

Da 9:16

infamous and much vexed. Heb. polluted of name, much invexation.

Jer 15:2,3

the princes.

27; Ne 9:34; Isa 1:23; Jer 2:26,27; 5:5; 32:32; Da 9:8

Mic 3:1-3,9-11; Zec 3:3

power. Heb. arm.

Mic 2:1

set.

Ex 21:17; Le 20:9; De 27:16; Pr 20:20; 30:11,17; Mt 15:4-6; Mr 7:10

dealt.

29; 18:12; Ex 22:21,22; De 27:19; Pr 22:22,23; Jer 7:6; Zec 7:10

Mal 3:5

oppression. or, deceit.

26; 20:13,21,24; 23:38,39; Le 19:30; Am 8:4-6; Mal 1:6-8,12

men that carry tales. Heb. men of slanders.

Ex 20:16; 23:1; Le 19:16; 1Ki 21:10-13; Ps 50:20; 101:5; Pr 10:18

Pr 18:8; 26:22; Jer 6:28; 9:4; 37:13-15; 38:4-6; Mt 26:59

Ac 6:11-13; 24:5,13; Re 12:9,10

they eat.

18:6,11,15; Ps 106:28; 1Co 10:18-21

they commit.

16:43; 24:13; Jud 20:6; Ho 4:2,10,14; 6:9; 7:4

discovered.

Ge 35:22; 49:4; Le 18:7,8; 20:11; De 27:20,23; 2Sa 16:21,22

1Ch 5:1; Am 2:7; 1Co 5:1

humbled.

18:6; Le 18:19; 20:18

one. or, every one. committed.

18:11; Le 18:20; 20:10; De 22:22; Job 31:9-11; Jer 5:7,8; 9:2; 29:23

Mal 3:5; Mt 5:27,28; 1Co 6:9; Ga 5:19; Heb 13:4

another. or, every one. hath lewdly. or, hath by lewdness.

Le 18:15; 20:12,17

his sister.

Le 18:9; 20:17; De 27:22; 2Sa 13:1,14,28,29

taken gifts.

Ex 23:7,8; De 16:19; 27:25; Isa 1:23; Mic 7:2,3; Zep 3:3,4

thou hast.

18:8,13; Ex 22:25,26; Le 25:35,36; De 23:19; Ne 5:1,7; Ps 15:5

greedily.

Pr 1:19; Isa 56:11; Mt 23:14,25; Lu 3:13; 18:11; 19:8; 1Co 5:11

1Co 6:10; 1Ti 3:3; 6:9,10; Jas 5:1-4; Jude 1:11

and hast.

23:35; De 32:18; Ps 106:21; Jer 2:32; 3:21

I have.

21:14,17; Nu 24:10

thy dishonest.

27; Pr 28:8; Isa 33:15; Jer 5:26,27; 7:9-11; Am 2:6-8; 3:10; 8:4-6

Mic 2:1-3; 6:10,11; 1Th 4:6

and at.

2-4

Thine heart.

21:7; 28:9; Job 40:9; Isa 31:3; 45:9; Jer 13:21; 1Co 10:22

Heb 10:31

I the.

5:13; 17:24; 24:14; 1Sa 15:29; Mr 13:31

scatter.

5:12; 12:14,15; 34:6; 36:19; Le 26:33; De 4:27; 28:25,64; Ne 1:8

Jer 15:4; Zec 7:14

consume.

18,22; 20:38; 23:47,48; 24:6-14; Isa 1:25; Zec 13:9; Mal 3:3; 4:1

Mt 3:12; 1Pe 4:12

take thine inheritance in thyself. or, be profaned inthyself.

7:24; 25:3; Isa 43:28; 47:6

thou shalt know.

6:7; 39:6,7,28; Ex 8:22; 1Ki 20:13,28; Ps 9:16; 83:18; Isa 37:20

Da 4:25,32-35

17

the house.

Ps 119:119; Isa 1:22; Jer 6:28-30

brass.

20; Isa 48:4; La 4:1,2

in the midst.

Pr 17:3; Isa 31:9; 48:10

dross. Heb. drosses.

I will.Jerusalem is here represented as the fining pot; all the people, who had become dross, are to be gathered together in it; and the fire of the Chaldeans, blown by the wrath of God, is to melt the whole. No ordinary means will avail to purge their impurities; the most violent must therefore be resorted to.

11:7; 24:3-6; Mic 4:12; Mt 13:30,40-42

As they gather. Heb. According to the gathering. to blow.

21; 21:31,32; Isa 54:16

in mine.

24:13; Jer 4:11,12,20

and blow.

15:6,7; 20:47,48; 22:20-22; De 4:24; 29:20; 32:22; 2Ki 25:9; Ps 21:9

Ps 50:3; Isa 30:33; Jer 21:12; Na 1:6; Zep 1:18

and ye.

Ps 68:2; 112:10; Isa 64:2,7; Jer 9:7

ye shall know.

16,31; 20:8,33; Ho 5:10; Re 16:1

23

2Ch 28:22; 36:14-16; Isa 1:5; 9:13; Jer 2:30; 5:3; 6:29; 44:16-19

Zep 3:2

a conspiracy.

13:10-16; 1Ki 22:11-13,23; Jer 5:30,31; 6:13; La 2:14; 4:13

2Pe 2:1-3

like.

27-29; Isa 56:11; Ho 6:9; Mic 3:5-7; Re 13:11,15

ravening.That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.

they have devoured.

13:19; Jer 2:30,34; Mt 23:14; Mr 12:40; Lu 20:47; Re 17:6; 18:13

priests.

1Sa 2:12-17,22; Jer 2:8,26,27; La 4:13; Mic 3:11,12; Zep 3:3,4

Mal 1:6-8; 2:1-3,8

violated. Heb. offered violence to. profaned.

Le 22:2-33; 1Sa 2:15,29

put no.

44:23; Le 10:1-3,10; 11:47; 20:25; Jer 15:19; Hag 2:11-13

hid their.

8; 20:12,13

I am profaned.

36:20; Ro 2:24

princes.

6; 19:3-6; 22:6; 45:9; Isa 1:23; Ho 7:1-7; Mic 3:2,3,9-11; 7:8

Zep 3:3; Jas 2:6,7

to get.

13; Mt 21:13; Jas 5:1-4

prophets.The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.

25; 13:10-16; Isa 30:10; Jer 8:10,11

seeing.

13:22,23; 21:29; Jer 23:25-32; La 2:14; Zep 3:4

Thus saith the Lord.

13:6,7; Jer 23:21; 28:2,15; 29:8,9; 37:19

people.

7; 18:12; Isa 5:7; 10:2; 59:3-7; Jer 5:26-28,31; 6:13; Am 3:10

Mic 2:2; 3:3; Jas 5:4

oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.

7; 22:7; Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 19:33; Ps 94:6; Mt 25:43

wrongfully. Heb. without right.

I sought.God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.

Isa 59:16; 63:5; Jer 5:1

make.

13:5; Ge 18:23-32; Ex 32:10-14; Ps 106:23; Jer 15:1

have I poured.

21,22

their own.

7:3,8,9; 9:10; 11:21; 16:43; Ro 2:8,9

Ezekiel 23

1 The whoredoms of Aholah and Aholibah.

23 Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers.

36 The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both;

45 and shews their judgments.

1

two.

16:44,46; Jer 3:7-10

in Egypt.

20:8; Le 17:7; De 29:16; Jos 24:14

in their.

8,19,21; 16:22; Ho 2:15

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 of 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.

16:40; 1Ki 12:20

they were.

16:8,20; Ex 19:5,6; Ps 45:11-16; Jer 2:2,3; Ro 7:4

Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle.

1Ki 12:26-33; Joh 4:22

Aholibah. that is, My tabernacle in her.

1Ki 8:29; Ps 76:2; 132:13,14

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.

1Ki 14:9,16; 15:26,30; 16:31,32; 21:26; 2Ki 17:7-18

doted.

7,9,12,16,20; 16:37; Jer 50:38

on the.

16:28; 2Ki 15:19; 16:7; 17:3; Ho 5:13; 8:9,10; 10:6; 12:1

all of.

12-15

committed her whoredoms with them. Heb. bestowed herwhoredoms upon them.

16:15

the chosen men of Assyria. Heb. the choice of the childrenof Asshur.

Ge 10:22

with all their.

30; 20:7; 22:3,4; Ps 106:39; Ho 5:3; 6:10

whoredoms.

3,19,21; Ex 32:4; 1Ki 12:28; 2Ki 10:29; 17:16

2Ki 15:29; 17:3-6,23; 18:9-12; 1Ch 5:26; Ho 11:5; Re 17:12,13,16

discovered.

29; 16:37-41; Ho 2:3,10

they took.

47

famous. Heb. a name.

48; Jer 22:8,9

her sister.

4; Jer 3:8

was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she. Heb. shecorrupted her inordinate love more than she. her sister in her whoredoms. Heb. the whoredoms of her sister.

16:47-51; Jer 3:8-11

upon.

5; 16:28; 2Ki 16:7-15; 2Ch 28:16-23

captains.

6,23

that they.

31; 2Ki 17:18,19; Ho 12:1,2

pourtrayed.

8:10; Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2

vermilion.

Jer 22:14

with girdles.

1Sa 18:4; Isa 22:21

all of.

Jud 8:18; 2Sa 14:25

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.

as soon as she saw them with her eyes. Heb. at the sight ofher eyes.

16:29; Ge 3:6; 6:2; 39:7; 2Sa 11:2; 2Ki 24:1; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37

Pr 6:25; 23:33; Mt 5:28

and sent.

40,41; 16:17,29; 2Pe 2:14

Babylonians. Heb. children of Babel.

Ge 10:10; 11:9

and her.

22,28; 16:37; 2Sa 13:15

alienated. Heb. loosed, or disjointed.

discovered.

16:36; 21:24; Isa 3:9; Jer 8:12; Ho 7:1

then.

De 32:19; Ps 78:59; 106:40; Jer 6:8; 12:8; 15:1; La 2:7; Ho 2:2

Am 6:8; Zec 11:8

multiplied.

14; 16:25,29,51; Am 4:4

in calling.

3,8,21; 16:22; 20:7

16:20,26

17:15; Jer 5:8

21

I will raise.

9,28; 16:37; Isa 10:5,6; 39:3,4; Hab 1:6-10; Re 17:16

from.

17

and I.

Jer 6:22,23; 12:9-12

Babylonians.

21:19-27; 2Ki 20:14-17; 25:1-3

the Chaldeans.

2Ki 24:2; Job 1:17; Isa 23:13; Ac 7:4

Pekod.

Jer 50:21

the Assyrians.

Ge 2:14; 25:18; Ezr 6:22

desirable.

6,12

with chariots.

26:10; Jer 47:3; Na 2:3,4; 3:2,3

I will set.

45; 16:38; 21:23; 2Sa 24:14; Jer 39:5,6

I will set.

5:13; 8:1-18; 16:38-42; Ex 34:14; De 29:20; 32:21,22; Pr 6:34

So 8:6; Zep 1:18

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.

47; Ho 2:4,5

thy residue.

15:6,7; 20:47,48; 22:18-22; Re 18:8

strip.

29; 16:16,37,39; Jer 13:22; Ho 2:3,9,10; Re 17:16; 18:14-17

fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thy decking.

Isa 3:17-24; 1Pe 3:3,4

will I.

16:41; 22:15; Isa 27:9; Mic 5:10-14; Zec 13:2

and thy.

3,19

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 2,414 years.

whom thou.

17,22; 16:37; Jer 21:7-10; 24:8; 34:20

deal.

25,26,45-47; 16:39; De 28:47-51; 2Sa 13:15

the nakedness.

18; 16:36,37

thou hast.

12-21; 6:9; Ps 106:35-38; Jer 2:18-20; 16:11,12; 22:8,9

because thou art.

7,17

walked.

13; 16:47-51; Jer 3:8-11

her.

2Ki 21:13; Jer 7:14,15; Da 9:12

drink.

Ps 60:3; Isa 51:17; Jer 25:15-28; 48:26; Mt 20:22,23; Re 16:19

Re 18:6

thou shalt be.

22:4,5; 25:6; 26:2; 35:15; 36:3; De 28:37; 1Ki 9:7; Ps 79:3

Jer 25:9; La 2:15,16; Mic 7:8

filled.

Jer 25:27; Hab 2:16

with the cup of astonishment.

Isa 51:17,22

drink.

Ps 75:8; Isa 51:17

and pluck.

3,8; Re 18:7

Because.

22:12; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:32; 3:21; 13:25; 23:27; 32:33; Ho 8:14; 13:6

Ro 1:28

and cast.

1Ki 14:9; Ne 9:26

therefore.

45-49; 7:4; 44:10; Le 24:15; Nu 14:34; 18:22

wilt.

20:4; 22:2; Jer 1:10; 1Co 6:2,3

judge. or, plead for.

Jer 11:14; 14:11

Aholah.

4

declare.

16:2; Isa 58:1; Ho 2:2; Mic 3:8-11; Mt 23:13-35; Lu 11:39-52

Ac 7:51-53

they have.

5; 16:32; Ho 1:2; 3:1

and blood.

39,45; 16:36,38; 22:2-4; 24:6-9; 2Ki 24:4; Ps 106:37,38

Isa 1:15; Jer 7:6,9; Ho 4:2; Mic 3:10; Lu 13:34

have also.

4; 16:20,21,36,45; 20:26,31; Le 18:21; 20:2-5; De 12:31

2Ki 17:17; 21:6; Jer 7:31; 32:35

they have.

7:20; 8:5-16; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:11,12

and have.

20:13,24; 22:8; Ne 13:17,18; Jer 17:27

they came.

Isa 3:9; Jer 7:8-11; 11:15; Mic 3:11; Joh 18:28

thus.

38; 44:7; 2Ki 21:4; 2Ch 33:4-7; Jer 23:11

ye have.

13; Isa 57:9

to come. Heb. coming.

2Ki 20:13-15

thou didst.

Ru 3:3; Es 2:12

paintedst.{Kachalt aineych,} rendered by the LXX. [estibizou tous ophthalmous sou;] "thou didst paint thine eyes with stibium," and Vulgate {circumlinisti stibio oculos tuos,} "thou didst paint round thine eyes with stibium," or lead ore; whence it is called in Arabic {kochl,} and in Syriac {kecholo,} and {koochlo.}

2Ki 9:30; Jer 4:30

and deckedst.

16:13-16; Pr 7:10; Isa 3:18-23

stately. Heb. honourable.

Es 1:6; Pr 7:16,17; Isa 57:7; Am 2:8; 6:4

a table.

44:16; Isa 65:11; Mal 1:7

whereupon.

16:18,19; Pr 7:17; Jer 44:17; Ho 2:8,9

a voice.This seems to be an account of an idolatrous festival, perhaps that of Bacchus; in which a riotous and drunken multitude assembled, adorned with bracelets and chaplets, accompanied with music, songs, and dances.

Ex 32:6,18,19; Ho 13:6; Am 6:1-6

common sort. Heb. multitude of men. were brought.

Job 1:15; Joe 3:8

Sabeans. or, drunkards. bracelets.

16:11,12; Re 12:3

old.

Ezr 9:7; Ps 106:6; Jer 13:23; Da 9:16

whoredoms with her. Heb. her whoredoms.

so went.

3,9-13

the righteous.The Chaldeans, so called, because appointed by God to execute his judgment on these criminals.

36; Jer 5:14; Ho 6:5; Zec 1:6; Joh 8:3-7

after the manner of adulteresses.

37-39; 16:38-43; Le 20:10; 21:9; De 22:21-24; Joh 8:7

because.

37

I will.

22-26; 16:40; Jer 25:9

to be removed and spoiled. Heb. for a removing and spoil.

Jer 15:4; 24:9; 34:17

the company.

25,29; 9:6; 16:41; Jer 33:4,5

dispatch them. or, single them out.

24:6

shall slay.

24:21; 2Ch 36:17-19

and burn.

De 13:16; Jer 39:8; 52:13

I cause.

27; 6:6; 22:15; 36:25; Mic 5:11-14; Zep 1:3

that.

5:15; 16:41; De 13:11; Isa 26:9; 1Co 10:6-11; 2Pe 2:6

they shall.

7:4,9; 9:10; 11:21; 16:43; 22:31; Isa 59:18

ye shall bear.

35

and ye shall know.

6:7; 20:38,42,44; 25:5; Ps 9:16

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem.

19:41,42; Mt 23:37-39

killest.

2Ch 24:21,22; 36:15,16; Ne 9:26; Jer 2:30; 26:23; La 4:13

Mt 21:35,36; 22:6; Ac 7:52,59; 8:1; Re 11:8

how.

De 5:29; 32:29; Ps 81:10,13; Isa 48:17-19; 50:2

thy.

19:44; 23:28; Ps 149:2; La 1:16; Joe 2:23; Ga 4:25,26

as.

De 32:11,12; Ru 2:12; Ps 17:8; 36:7; 57:1; 91:4

and ye.

15:28; Ne 9:30; Ps 81:11; Pr 1:24-30; Isa 30:15; Jer 6:16; 7:23,24

Jer 35:14; 44:4-6; Ho 11:2,7; Zec 1:4; Mt 22:3; Ac 3:14,15
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