Isa 3:9, Jer 2:34, 3:2, Eze 16:16-22, 22:3-12, 24-31, 23:5-21, 24:7 | TSK | STEP

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.

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

Ezekiel 22:3-12

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

Ezekiel 22:24-31

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 23:5-21

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.

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