Ezekiel 23:42

Ezekiel 23:42

40 “Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, ^ato whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you ^bwashed yourself for them, ^cpainted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

41 You sat on a stately ^acouch, with a table prepared before it, ^bon which you had set My incense and My oil.

42 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and¹ Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their² wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’

44 Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Sabeans—Not content with the princely, handsome Assyrians, the sisters brought to themselves the rude robber hordes of Sabeans (Job 1:15). The Keri, or Margin, reads "drunkards."

upon their hands—upon the hands of the sisters, that is, they allured Samaria and Judah to worship their gods.

Ezekiel 23:36-44

A summing up of the sins of the two sisters, especially those of Judah.

wilt thou judge—Wilt thou (not) judge (see on Ezekiel 20:4)?

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