Psa 105:44-45, Eze 21-23 | TSK | STEP | gave. inherited. the labour.That is, "the produce of their labour;" the cities and houses they had built, the vineyards they had planted, etc.

he made.Or, as the Vulgate, "he mingled his arrows:" "They wrote on several arrows," says Jerome, "the names of the cities they intended to assault; and then putting them altogether promiscuously in a quiver, they drew then out thence as lots are drawn; and that city whose name was written on the arrow first drawn, was the city they first made war on."

arrows. or, knives. images. Heb. teraphim.

Ge 31:19,30; Jud 17:5; 18:14,18,20,24; 2Ki 23:24; Ho 3:4; 4:12

Zec 10:2

captains. or battering rams. Heb. rams.

4:2

to lift.

Ex 32:17,18; Jos 6:10,20; 1Sa 17:20; Job 39:25; Jer 51:14

to appoint.

4:2; Jer 32:24; 33:4; 52:4

as a.

11:3; 12:22; Isa 28:14,15

to them that have sworn oaths. or, for the oaths made untothem.

17:13-19; 2Ch 36:13

but.

2Ki 24:20; 25:1-7; Jer 52:3-11

call.

24; 29:16; Nu 5:15; 1Ki 17:18; Re 16:19

your transgressions.

16:16-22; 22:3-12,24-31; 23:5-21; 24:7; Isa 3:9; Jer 2:34; 3:2

Jer 5:27,28; 6:15; 8:12; 9:2-7; Ho 4:2; Mic 3:10-12

ye shall.

Isa 22:17,18; Jer 15:2; Am 9:1-3

profane.

17:19; 2Ch 36:13; Jer 24:8; 52:2

whose.

29; 7:6; 30:3; 35:5; Ps 7:9; 9:5,6; Jer 51:13

Remove.

12:12,13; 16:12; 2Ki 25:6,27; Jer 13:18; 39:6,7; 52:9-11,31-34

La 5:16

exalt.

17:24; 1Sa 2:7,8; Ps 75:7; 113:7,8; Lu 1:52

I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it. Heb. Perverted,perverted, perverted, will I make it.

Hag 2:21,22; Heb 12:26,27

until.

13; 17:22,23; 34:23; 37:24,25; Ge 49:10; Nu 24:19; Ps 2:6; 72:7-10

Isa 9:6,7; Jer 23:5,6; 30:21; 33:15,16,21,26; Da 2:44; 9:25; Ho 3:5

Am 9:11,12; Mic 5:2; Hag 2:7; Zec 6:12,13; 9:9; Mal 3:1; 4:2

Mt 28:18; Lu 1:32,69; 2:11; Joh 1:4,9; Eph 1:20-22; Php 2:9,10

1Pe 3:22; Re 19:11-16

concerning the.

20; 25:2-7; Jer 49:1-5; Am 1:13-15; Zep 2:8-10

The sword.

9,10

they see.

12:24; 13:23; 22:28; Isa 44:25; 47:13; Jer 27:9

to bring.

13:10; La 2:14

whose.

25; Job 18:20; Ps 37:13

Shall I cause it to return. or, Cause it to return.

4,5; Jer 47:6,7

I will.

16:38; 28:13,15; Ge 15:14

in the.

16:3,4

pour.

7:8; 14:19; 22:22; Na 1:6

I will blow.

22:20,21; Ps 18:15; Isa 30:33; 37:7; 40:7; Hag 1:9

brutish. or, burning. and skilful.

Isa 14:4-6; Jer 4:7; 6:22,23; 51:20,21; Hab 1:6-10

for fuel.

20:47,48; Mal 4:1; Mt 3:10,12

thy blood.

30; Isa 34:3-7

thou shalt be no.This prophecy against the Ammonites was fulfilled about five years after the taking of Jerusalem; and their name has utterly perished from the face of the earth.

25:10; Zep 2:9

for I.

Nu 23:19; Mt 24:35

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I will raise.

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

from.

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.

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