This is returning with the dog to his vomit. The form in Ezekiel 23:20, which the Keri also gives in Ezekiel 23:18, has taken ah as a feminine termination (not the cohortative ah), like in Proverbs 1:20; Proverbs 8:1 (vid., Delitzsch, Comm. And so God then speaks of His jealousy that is against them and how the Babylonians will come and they will deal furiously with you and you'll fall by the sword and the residue that remains will be devoured by the fire. Brenton Septuagint Translation and thou didst dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their membersasthe members of horses. And he speaks about that here. New Heart English Bible She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Ezekiel tells us what God said to him in chapter 23, dealing with the story of two sisters he married, Aholah, the eldest, and Aholibah, the youngest. God tells him that the two sisters allowed their virgin breasts to be handled from a very young age, but thateven so, he decided to join them and that both gave him many sons and daughters;however, in verse 5, Ezekiel quickly recounts that Aholah began to be unfaithful to God and became the mistress of the Assyrians. Turned against God when Jeroboam became king over the Northern Kingdom. How could the pure and holy God any longer take delight in such a lewd generation? The Chaldee rendering is , perfecte induti. Israel, the northern kingdom, was impressed with the might of Assyria, but in forming an alliance with the superior power she accepted also that countrys gods (5-8). Anciently harlot meant in our language either the male or female prostitute. KJV For she doted upon their paramours, whose fleshis asthe flesh of asses, and whose issueis likethe issue of horses. They called it God's remembrance, and provoked him to remember it against them. Nevertheless she persisted in her immoral conduct that she had learned in Egypt. z "equecubinas eorum", Vatablus, so Junius Tremellius, Polanus "concubitores", Munster, Tigurine version; "cinaedos", Castalio; and, as Ben Melech observes, these were men, and not women. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. Girded about the hips with girdles, with overhanging caps upon their heads, all of them knights in appearance, resembling the sons of Babel, the land of whose birth is Chaldea: Ezekiel 23:16. Of idolatry. Ezekiel 23:12. In the reign of Manasseh, soon after the kingdom of Judah had seen the destruction of the kingdom of Israel, they became more corrupt than Israel had been in their inordinate love of idols, Ezekiel 23:11; Ezekiel 23:11. Ezekiel concludes Gods testimony by claiming that sins of lewdness will fall upon them, and that is when all will know that he is(God) the Lord Almighty. Ezekiel 23:17. I don't want it. Although apparently, this legend does not necessarily speak about unfaithful women with a large sexual appetite provoking the wrath of God, it will always be interesting to remember Ezekiel 23: 20, the peculiar biblical passage that speaks of men with donkey penises. Ezekiel 23:20. World English Bible She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Relevant topics might include general exegetical issues, ancient languages and translation, the study of the historical Jesus, textual criticism, reception history of early Jewish/Christian literature, etc. Verses 5 through 10 tell us howAholah engages sexually with these handsome young men wearing purple garments. Contemporary English Version She eagerly wanted to go to bed with Egyptian men, who were famous for their sexual powers. And God said, "My mind was alienated from her like as My mind was alienated from her sister." 18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. The horse was made by the Egyptians the hieroglyphic for a lustful person. It will be a time of terrible suffering as the people are cruelly humiliated, butchered and plundered (25-27), yet the whole terrifying experience will be a fitting punishment because of Judahs disgusting prostitution (28-30). New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. are scorta mascula (here (Kimchi) - a drastically sarcastic epithet applied to the sarisim, the eunuchs, or courtiers. See the comm. #3 whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Meant to illustrate their great earthly power, it also is meant to be a disgusting image of adultery against God. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And she copulated with their Servants, whose flesh was like the flesh of donkeys, and their genitals like the genitals of horses. This cannot be inferred from Ezekiel 8:10, as Hvernick supposes; nor established by Hitzig's argument, that the woman must have been in circumstances to see such pictures. The prophet likens these two kingdoms to two sisters who became prostitutes (23:1-4).The prostitution of Israel and Judah was their unfaithfulness to God in forming military alliances with foreign nations instead of trusting in him. 1. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. The Chaldeans themselves came and laid the foundation for an intercourse which led to the pollution of Judah with heathenism, and afterwards filled it with disgust, because it was brought thereby into dependence upon the Chaldeans. Amp For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses. God is like a jealous husband and our forsaking of him or idols is as disgraceful and gross as this image portrays. And when she had had enough of the Chaldeans, and grew tired of them and disposed to break her league with them, as Jehoiakim and Zedekiah did, her mind being alienated from them, she courted the Egyptians, doted upon their paramours (Ezekiel 23:20; Ezekiel 23:20), would come into an alliance with them, and, to strengthen the alliance, would join with them in their idolatries and then depend upon them to be their protectors from all other nations; for so wise, so rich, so strong, was the Egyptian nation, and came to such perfection in idolatry, that there was no nation now which they could take such satisfaction in as in Egypt. And then they would go to the temple and worship God. The one's name is Aholah; she is the older one. The description of the Assyrians in Ezekiel 23:12 coincides with that in Ezekiel 23:5 and Ezekiel 23:6, except that some of the predicates are placed in a different order, and is substituted for . Jeremiah 2:24; Jeremiah 5:8; Jeremiah 13:27). The figurative epithet answers to the licentious character of the Egyptian idolatry. Then, verse 11, speaks of Aholibah, who despite witnessing what her elder sister did began to play the harlot even more than her. Moreover this have they done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and they have profaned my sabbaths. Thus was she polluted with her whoredoms (Ezekiel 23:17; Ezekiel 23:17), and thereby she discovered her own whoredom (Ezekiel 23:18; Ezekiel 23:18), her own strong inclination to idolatry. Compare Le 15:2, Margin; Eze 16:26. issue of horsesthe seminal issue. And he installed calf worship; later on Baal worship and Molech. Then the sons of Babylon came to her to the bed of love, and defiled her with their whoredom; and when she had defiled herself with them, her soul tore itself away from them. Even, according to those who have decided to believe in this hypothesis of the peculiar history of high sexual content,maintain that these prophecies were eventually fulfilled, due to the enormous number of wars and coups that have occurred in these territories, especially in the ancient time. - There is great obscurity in the statement in Ezekiel 23:14 as to the way in which Judah was seduced to cultivate intercourse with the Chaldeans. The Lord also became disgusted with her, as He had with her sister. He set up the calf in Bethel and in Dan and he said, "Now these are the gods that brought you out of Egypt. And thus, prostituted themselves, giving themselves unto idolatry in love and all for these false religions instead of giving themselves in their love for the Lord.Now, as the result of Aholah and her lewd acts that is against God, God's judgment, He used the Syrians, the Assyrians to destroy the Northern Kingdom. 22, and Columella, de re rust. Aholibah also fell madly in love with the Assyrians,but he also emphasizes that he went further than his sister, since later he fell in love with the Babylonians of Chaldea and even sent messengers to this land. Christian inspirational blogs, Bible Verse, Prayers and more. What do you mean by instead of reflecting female desire it reflects male obsession? yea, declare unto them their abominations; That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them ( Ezekiel 23:36-37 ). Yes, he was talking about the cities, these references being highly sexualized, simply metaphors of how these territories voluntarily surrendered to neighboring nations and began to worship other idols, and that for that they were deserving of the wrath of God; this is why it is seen prophetically. And then they began to pollute themselves with the Babylonian religion. BSB and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions. - The train of thought in these verses is the following: - Judah went much further than Samaria. , coloured cloth, from , to colour; here, according to the context, variegated head-bands or turbans. #2 she lusted after her lovers, The Israelites bore some of the responsibility for their enslavement in Egypt and appropriated that culture a little too readily even while they were slaves. Thou lookest after the lewdness of thy youth, when they of Egypt handled thy bosom because of thy virgin breasts. A subreddit for discussion of early Judaism and Christianity with a focus on Biblical texts and related literature (1 Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and so on) in a scholarly context. International Standard Version She lusted after her paramours, whose genitals are like those of donkeys, and whose emissions are like those of horses. It is no reply to this, to state that the woman does not send ambassadors till afterwards (Ezekiel 23:16), as Hitzig argues; for Judah sent ambassadors to Chaldea not to view the glories of Assyria, but to form alliances with the Chaldeans, or to sue for their favour. Verse Ezekiel 23:20. These are the gods that you worship." To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. In fact, king Ahaz went up to Assyria, and he makes mention of this here, how they went to Assyria. Aholibah means her tent is in her. He then prompts Ezekiel to judge both sisters, because they sacrificed their children to smelly idols and that they did so in Gods own house, who also tells the prophet that he will put an end to these sins: prostitution and idolatry, and adds that just men will punish adulterous women.. The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Son of man there were two women, who were the daughters of one mother: Now they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed ( Ezekiel 23:1-3 ). She lusted after the Egyptians that pursued her like donkeys and horses in heat (cf. Literal Standard Version And she lusts on their lovers, Whose flesh [is] the flesh of donkeys, And the emission of horsestheir emission. They pleased themselves with the remembrance of it. Thus she increased her whoredoms; she fell in love, fell in league, with the Chaldeans. God tells Ezekiel that he got tired of her as before he had tired of his sister, andthat is when the controversial passage appears where it appears that Aholibah fell in love with these handsome men with donkey penisesand horse semen. 27; and that of the horse has already been applied to the idolatry of the people by Jeremiah (vid., Jeremiah 5:8). Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: And they shall deal with thee hatefully, they shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. The former expression, which occurs again in Ezekiel 38:4, must really mean the same as '. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. Instead of being made to stand in awe of him as a jealous God, they therefore grew strange to him, and liked those gods better that would admit of partners with them. And he sent a design and all back to the priest in Jerusalem and ordered that an altar be built in Jerusalem like this altar of the false gods in Assyria so that when he returned to Jerusalem the priest had made this altar that was fashioned after the altar of the Assyrian gods. His jealousy soon discovered her lewdness (Ezekiel 23:13; Ezekiel 23:13): I saw that she was defiled, that she was debauched, and saw which way her inclination was, that the two sisters both took one way, and that Jerusalem grew worse than Samaria. The source, "The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysis of Ezekiel 23" (published in "the Double Voice of Her Desire", Brill), should be interesting to you, but I unfortunately don't have access to it, and the article is truncated in the google books preview (the part on Eze 23 begins p 170, with p 174-176 commenting on the "equine penises"; it partly adopts a feminist & "modern critical" lens, but it seems relevant for Ezekiel 23 and provides helpful contextualization). Aholah continued to practice the prostitution that began in Egypt and that he slept with many, but also mentions that he contaminated himself with the smelly idols that belonged to his mistresses. Now Aholah means her tent. Soon she went lusting again, this time seeking the favours of Egypt, hoping for Egyptian aid to fight against Babylon (17-21).Therefore, Judahs former lover, Babylon, with the assistance of other peoples from the Babylonian region, will return and attack her (22-24). , as in Ezekiel 16:26. Gods chosen nation was saved from Egypt and settled in Canaan, but it soon divided into two, the northern kingdom Israel (capital: Samaria) and the southern kingdom Judah (capital: Jerusalem). And he goes on to speak of these two daughters. And she burned toward their paramours, who have members like asses and heat like horses. The part focused on 23:20 is not available in preview, so here again, I will use screenshots (to avoid bloating this post and to not break the formatting and the Hebrew words), put in the same folder than earlier. They were destroying their own children in the fires to the god Molech and to the god Baal. And her sister Aholibah saw this and she was more corrupt in her inordinate love that she in her whoredoms more than her sister. No doubt he will; and when he has found it can he be pleased with it? Note, Sin alienates God's mind from the sinner, and justly, for it is the alienation of the sinner's mind from God; but woe, and a thousand woes, to those from whom God's mind is alienated; for whom he turns from he will turn against. The consequence of all this was, that the Lord became tired of Judah (Ezekiel 23:17, Ezekiel 23:18). If you like the folowing commentary, you can use it for whatever Scripture you choose: Thanks for the replies netchaplain and Major, although a still bit bedazzled here, may God Bless you All in jesus name i just want to say bro Calvin that the city name is Samaria, other important thing that the Jews they deserve to know what exactly they really are as last warning for them before the wrath of God pour on them God didn't cheat them he told them what they really are.
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