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Commentaries on Ezekiel 23:3

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Ezekiel 23 In this chapter the idolatries of Israel and Judah are represented under the metaphor of two harlots, and their lewdness. These harlots are described by their descent; by the place and time in which they committed their whoredoms; by their names, and which are explained, Ezekiel 23:1, the idolatries of Israel, or the ten tribes, under the name of Aholah, which they...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt,.... When they were but one body, one nation; and while they sojourned as strangers in that land they learned and practised the idolatries of it, Joshua 24:14, and so the Targum, "and they erred in Egypt, after the worship of their idols they erred, and there they corrupted their works:'' they committed whoredoms in their youth; as soon as they were come out...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This long chapter (as before ch. xvi. and xx.) is a history of the apostasies of God's people from him and the aggravations of those apostasies under the similitude of corporal whoredom and adultery. Here the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the ten tribes and the two, with their capital cities, Samaria and Jerusalem, are considered distinctly. Here is, I. The apostasy of Israel and Samaria from God...